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Hello, everyone --
I have primarily been a PC user until about 3 years ago when our office bought desktop Mac's. For the most part, I've been very pleased with this Mac. Also, a week ago, I bought a Macbook Pro. So far, so good (with the exception of an Airport question -- will post that separately).
Here's my beef. When I use Finder on my desktop Mac at work to look for or organize recent documents, I would like Finder to behave more like Windows Explorer;, i.e., to display ONLY the documents I have created. Instead, when I reorder my Documents within Finder by Most Recently Modified, I get a huge number of recently created files with extensions like .DAT, .SQLITE, .JS, etc. I have not found any way of specifying the viewin Finder in such a way that I can make my .DOC files come up first, then .XLS, then .PDF's, then music files, then everything else (which is what I'd like to do).
Here are some examples of the annoying files that clutter up my Finder window within Documents:
XUL.mfasl
prefs.js
places.sqlite
sessionstore.js
blocklist.xml
xpti.dat
etc., etc.,
It may be useful to know that this computer used to be used as part of a server in our division, but I (since I'm not a tech consultant) don't want or need to be dealing with these files on a daily basis for the most part. I would be happy to either be able to hide them or segregate them somehow, or just be able to separate the documents I create from these system-generated files.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!
I have primarily been a PC user until about 3 years ago when our office bought desktop Mac's. For the most part, I've been very pleased with this Mac. Also, a week ago, I bought a Macbook Pro. So far, so good (with the exception of an Airport question -- will post that separately).
Here's my beef. When I use Finder on my desktop Mac at work to look for or organize recent documents, I would like Finder to behave more like Windows Explorer;, i.e., to display ONLY the documents I have created. Instead, when I reorder my Documents within Finder by Most Recently Modified, I get a huge number of recently created files with extensions like .DAT, .SQLITE, .JS, etc. I have not found any way of specifying the viewin Finder in such a way that I can make my .DOC files come up first, then .XLS, then .PDF's, then music files, then everything else (which is what I'd like to do).
Here are some examples of the annoying files that clutter up my Finder window within Documents:
XUL.mfasl
prefs.js
places.sqlite
sessionstore.js
blocklist.xml
xpti.dat
etc., etc.,
It may be useful to know that this computer used to be used as part of a server in our division, but I (since I'm not a tech consultant) don't want or need to be dealing with these files on a daily basis for the most part. I would be happy to either be able to hide them or segregate them somehow, or just be able to separate the documents I create from these system-generated files.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!