Mac Finder Primer Tutorial
Windows Explorer Primer Tutorial
The Explorer program on Windows and the Finder application on Mac are two very valuable tools to learn to explore your hard disks and control your removable media. Since they have many similarities we present them in tandem for you to compare and contrast, and maybe for people new to one or the other, the “other” will become a “doddle” … stop doodling!
Read from Wikipedia about them below:
File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and also a navigation tool that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. It is also the component of the operating system that presents many user interface items on the monitor such as the taskbar and desktop. Controlling the computer is possible without Windows Explorer running (for example, the File | Run command in Task Manager on NT-derived versions of Windows will function without it, as will commands typed in a command prompt window). Located in the C:Windows directory, it is sometimes referred to as the Windows shell, explorer.exe, or simply “Explorer”.
Link to Windows Explorer information from Wikipedia as shown above.
Link to Windows Explorer usage advice from Microsoft as shown above.
The Finder is the default file manager used on Mac OS and OS X operating systems. It is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications. Finder acts like the shell on other operating systems, but using a graphical user interface, and is described in its ‘About’ window as The Macintosh Desktop Experience. It was introduced with the very first Macintosh computer, and also existed as part of GS/OS on the Apple IIGS. It underwent a complete rewrite with Apple’s switch to a UNIX-based OS in OS X.
The Finder is the first application a user interacts with after logging into a Mac. One could compare it to Windows Explorer in Microsoft Windows, the Tracker in BeOS, Nautilus in GNOME, and Dolphin or the file management aspect of Konqueror in KDE.
The Finder maintains a view of the file system that is rendered using a desktop metaphor – that is, the files and folders are represented as appropriate icons, volumes are displayed on the desktop, and there is a trash can (on the Dock in OS X, on the desktop in previous versions) to which files can be dragged to mark them for deletion. Part of the system core services in OS X, the Finder.app application bundle is located at /System/Library/CoreServices/.
Link to Mac Finder information from Wikipedia as shown above.
Link to Mac Finder usage advice from Apple as shown above.
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