From the course: macOS Monterey Essential Training

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Browse through folders

Browse through folders

- [Finder Instructor] Most people store documents, pictures, and other types of files on the storage drive on their computer. Like a filing cabinet you might have in your office. Finder is the tool in Mac OS, that you use to browse through those files and folders. If you see an icon for the Macintosh hard drive on your desktop, you can double click on that, or you can go to the finder icon in the doc, and click on that to open a finder window. On the sidebar on the left, you can select a location then on the right, you can navigate through the contents of that location, but I want to do some quick setup here, because there are some things that we don't see, but I think it's very important if we have them. So up at the top, I want to go to the finder menu. Then to preferences. We'll start here in this general tab where we can show items on the desktop. I think it's important to show your hard disks on the desktop, so you…

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