It's the default collection that appears when you open a new Finder window, and arranges items in the Icon view. If you can't find what you're looking for in the above locations, try Finder's Recents feature next. You'll see that both are once again active and populated. As you'll see from the menu options available, this is where you can configure the Recent Items list to display more or fewer than 10 items.Īfter this tweak, open a couple of files and folders, then visit the Recent Items and Recent Folders lists. To re-enable them, go to System Preferences > General and select any option except None from the Recent items dropdown menu. If you're lucky, your search will end in one of these two places.Ĭan't see the Recent Items menu option? Or does the Recent Folders menu item appear grayed out? You might have disabled them both in the past.

There's a 10-item limit for this menu also. The Recent Folders list: For the most recently used folders, look under Go > Recent Folders. The list displays 10 items of three types: applications, documents, and servers. The Recent Items list: You'll find this under the Apple menu, which lives behind the Apple logo at the far left of the menu bar. We will work around it.Your first two stops to locate a recently used file or folder should be: (It’s too bad that there’s not a column for “Image Dimensions” but that’s the way it goes. Image files with the word “calendar” in their names, “Size” column gives some indication of relative size but not actual dimension. This is List View, and it’s not very helpful when it comes to showing actual dimensions, although the “Size” column does give us an idea of which image files might be the higher-resolution ones and which might be the lower-res ones. The picture below shows the results of a search for image files with the word “calendar” in their names. Show the pixel dimensions of images in the Finder’s Icon View What you really need is a way to look at an image’s icon in a Finder window and know what its dimensions are without opening it. But that takes a bit of time and all that opening and closing becomes tedious, especially if you don’t find what you want on the first try. Of course you can open up an image in Preview, or Pixelmator, or Photoshop, and find the image size via the app’s menus. This leads to a need for multiple copies of some images– one saved at high resolution, another saved at low resolution (and maybe others in between). Sometimes you want an image with many pixels, either because you want it to take up a lot of screen space or because you want it to print well, and sometimes you want an image with not very many pixels, because you want the image to load quickly on a web page or to be transferable via email. When working with images it’s important to know their dimensions (how many pixels horizontally and how many pixels vertically, 640 x 480 for example).

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