Mac Best Practice

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Best Practice ideas in the use of the Apple Mac.

Tips and Techniques

• 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

1. Open a Finder Window. Open your folder in Finder (preferably the one that you want to know the count for).
2. Click on View in the Menu Bar. In the top menu bar, click on the View option.
3. Click on Show Status Bar. ...
4. Look at the Bottom of Your Finder Window. ...
5. Don't Want to See It Anymore?

• To display all files, including hidden ones, in a Finder window on a Mac, press Command + Shift + . (period). This shortcut toggles the visibility of hidden files within that specific Finder window. To hide the files again, simply press the same shortcut (Command + Shift + .).
• AirPlay from Apple AirPlay lets you share videos, photos, music, and more from Apple devices to your Apple TV, favorite speakers, and popular smart TVs. And what you share always stays personal and private.

1. 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
2. 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

Solutions

Utilities

2025-09-18 released Sysinternals jcd ("Jump cd"), a rust-based tool for Linux and MacOS that enables you to quickly jump up and down directory hierarchies just by entering fragments of the directory name you want to move to. I wrote it with heavy assistance from AI because I got sick of typing "cd ../../../..." and having to remember deep directory structures to navigate within the output of my LLM fine-tuning-based research projects. The best tools are the ones you write for yourself!

https://github.com/microsoft/jcd

jcd (Jump Change Directory) is a Rust-based command-line tool that provides enhanced directory navigation with sub-string matching and smart selection. It's like the cd command, but with superpo...

GitHub - microsoft/jcd: jcd (Jump Change Directory) is a Rust-based command-line tool that provides enhanced directory navigation with sub-string matching and smart selection. It's like the cd command, but with superpowers!
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