Customizing the Finder

I already blogged about how to change your background but today I am going to show you how to customize your Finder (the number of customizable options is limited) and use several important functions in Finder.

Path Options

1.) Option to turn on a path bar at the bottom of the Finder.

While you have the Finder selected (so that the menu is Finder), go to View > Show Path Bar.

Adding a Picture Background to Finder

        The old finder background is awfully boring so make it more lively by adding pictures to the background! It is really easy to do and you can either just set the current folder background to a certain picture or set all folders’ backgrounds to the same picture.

        And here’s a preview:

       So open up a folder and right-click, then “Show View Options”. For you speed daemons, press “Command+J”.

        Now, just click on the button highlighted in the screenshot below: