Mac Best Practice

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Best Practice ideas in the use of the Apple Mac.

Showing hidden files via Mac Finder = Press the “Command” + “Shift” + “.” (period) keys at the same time. The hidden files will show up as translucent in the folder. If you want to obscure the files again, press the same “Command” + “Shift” + “.” (period) combination.
Screen shots have various methods like cmd-3 and cmd-4. Beginning with macOS 13 (Ventura) a cmd-shift 5 gave a list of options for the user to choose from.
show the number of files in finder

Open a Finder Window. Open your folder in Finder (preferably the one that you want to know the count for).
Click on View in the Menu Bar. In the top menu bar, click on the View option.
Click on Show Status Bar. ...
Look at the Bottom of Your Finder Window. ...
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Go to system Preferences and then open sharing (if you have already selected an item, you hit the back button to get to the full menu.) from YouTube
On the other computer open Finder click "Go" in the top menu and select "Connect to server" you will then key in something like vnc://10.0.4.77