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Cheat sheet: Finder

EVEN IF YOU generally save things to the desktop for speed, there’ll be times when you want to do some housekeeping, either to archive old files or simply to work out what can be trashed. That’s when it’s helpful to know some tricks you can use in Finder.

The features we’ve detailed here don’t represent an exhaustive list of techniques for using Finder, but they are things we

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