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I first tried all the usual fixes, like deleting all the Finder plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/ and running First Aid in Disk Utility. For more Dock tricks, see “ macOS Hidden Treasures: Dominate the Dock,” 6 March 2017.) (If you ever need to do this, hold down Option, click and hold the Finder icon in the Dock, and choose Relaunch. Specifically, I was seeing the dreaded beachballs of death far more often than I care to, and the Finder was freezing regularly, forcing me to relaunch it multiple times per day.
#1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STXįreezing Finder? Dropbox and Overstuffed Folders May Be the Culpritįor the last few months, my iMac had been getting slower and slower.
#1623: How to turn off YouTube's PiP, use AirPlay to Mac, and securely erase Mac drives. #1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while traveling. #1625: Apple's "Far Out" event, the future of FileMaker, free NMUG membership, Quick Note and tags in Notes, Plex suffers data breach. #1626: AirTag replacement battery gotcha, Kindle Kids software flaws, iOS 12.5.6 security fix. Of course that can be addressed with the correct utility. If there’s a small fly in this ointment it’s that any time you save a new file you have to click on that Where menu and navigate to your Important Files folder as you can’t choose it as a default save location nor assign a keyboard shortcut to it so that you can move to it quickly. Your file will be saved and synced with Dropbox. Within the Save sheet that appears, click on the Where pop-up menu and select your Important Files folder (which appears under Favorites) in the resulting menu. Launch an application, create a new document, and save it. Within the Finder drag your Important Files folder into a Finder window’s sidebar so that it appears under the Favorites heading. That’s convenient when you want to move files after you’ve saved them, but what about saving files to such a Dropbox folder directly from within an application? Here’s how. Now, when you want to copy files to your Dropbox folder, just select them in the Finder and press this keyboard shortcut. Click on the Add Shortcut button and press a keyboard shortcut that you’d like to use to trigger the service. Lauch System Preferences, select the Keyboard preference, click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, select the Services entry in the left side of the window, and scroll down the list to the right until you locate the Copy to Dropbox service you created. Use this workflow to quickly copy files to Dropbox Now choose File > Save, name the workflow something like Copy To Dropbox, and click the Save button. Drag this folder to the Copy Finder Items action.
Open your Dropbox folder (found, by default, in your user folder), and create a folder for your important files ( Important Files, seems like an appropriate name). From Automator’s Library pane choose Files & Folders and then drag the Get Selected Finder Items and Copy Finder Items actions into the workflow area. Configure the top of the workflow to read Service receives no input in any application. Launch Automator and in the workflow template chooser that appears select Service and click Choose.