Set what your Finder Windows Open To

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Learn how to set what a new Finder window opens up to by default.

By default, when you open a new Finder window, it shows your your recent items no matter which folder they are in. You can change this to open to a specific folder instead. This could be your Home folder, Desktop folder, or a folder that you create. In this video for the Mac, I show you how this works by setting new Finder windows to open to my Home folder instead of showing my recent items.

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In this tip, I’m going to show you how you can select which folder a new finder window opens to on the Mac. Let’s go to my Mac. By Default. When you open up a new Finder window, I’m going to click on my finder here—being that I do not have any windows open. When I click on this, I get a new Finder window by default.

It opens up to my recent files. What I want to do is I want to make it open up to my home folder to do that. I’m going to close this, to do that. All we do is we go up to our finder preferences. So I click on find her here, and we go over to preferences. We have a new window that opens up. And from here, what we can do is we can select under general.

We can select what a new Finder window opens to. I want to have it open up to my home folder. So now, I select dance tutorials. I close the window. And now when I go and open up a new finder window, this time, I’m going to go up under file here and go new finder window. It opens up to Dan’s Tutorials.

So that’s how you can select what a new Finder window opens to on the Mac.

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