On your Mac, click the Finder icon in the Dock to open a Finder window. Do any of the following: Hide or show the sidebar: Choose View Hide Sidebar or View Show Sidebar.(If Show Sidebar is dimmed, choose View Show Toolbar.) Resize the sidebar: Drag the right side of the divider bar to the right or left. Change what’s in the sidebar: Choose Finder Preferences, click Sidebar, then. Oct 03, 2019 ‎macOS Catalina gives you more of everything you love about Mac. Experience three all-new media apps: Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Podcasts. Locate a missing Mac with the new Find My app. And now coming to Mac, your favorite iPad apps. You can even extend your desktop using iPad as a second displ. Apple has also removed all 32-bit-only apps from the Mac App Store. Zsh is the default login shell and interactive shell in macOS Catalina, replacing Bash, the default shell since Mac OS X Panther in 2003. Bash continues to be available in macOS Catalina, along with other shells such as csh/tcsh and ksh. Jul 10, 2020 I upload many photos to the internet every day using Apple's MacOS Catalina. When you first choose photos in the file chooser, the chooser is blank and there’s a single line of text: “No media. Mar 25, 2020 How to restore your iPhone or iPad on macOS Catalina. You can manually restore your iPhone or iPad on your Mac: Click on the Finder app in the Mac Dock. Select your device on the left side of the screen under Devices. On the right-hand side, click on the General tab. Click Restore Backup next to the Backup and Restore section.

Certain actions that you perform on your Mac will cause default apps to open. For example, clicking a document may open Pages. But what if you want Microsoft Word to open instead? You can also set your default web browser and email reader.

Here's how!

How to change the default Mac app for specific file types

Right-click on a file that uses the file type you'd like to change the default for. For example, one with a .jpg extension (a photo).
Click on Get Info in the pop-up.
Click Open With if the section isn't already expanded.
Click the dropdown and choose an app.
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Click Change All...
Click Continue when the Finder asks you if you're sure.
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Now any time you open a file with that extension, the Finder will automatically open it with the app you've selected.

How to set your default web browser

Launch System Preferences from the dock, Finder, or by clicking the Apple icon in the Menu bar.
Click General at the top left of the window.
Click the dropdown next to Default web browser.
Click the web browser you'd like to use as the default.
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How to set your default email reader

Mail is likely the default email app on your Mac, but just in case you have others downloaded, you can set the default reader. Here's how:

Launch Mail from your dock or the Finder.
Click Mail in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click Preferences.
Click the dropdown next to Default Mail Reader.
Click the app you'd like to set as the default.
Source: iMore

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