what's up YouTube so I'm here on a fresh brand new user on Mac OS Sierra and I
want to show you guys today how I set up a new user so I've been using Mac OS for
years and years and years and years and I love the platform it's very manageable
it's really easy to use except when it's out of box like this now I don't know
why Apple hasn't changed it although thank you for keeping all of
the hidden best features of Mac OS still there over the years but I'm going to
show you guys how I configure my systems so this is a 15 inch retina MacBook Pro
and we're going to just set it up I literally made the user opened it up and
started ScreenFlow so this is as fresh as you could get this is what you would
get when you buy your macbook in the store so let's begin the first thing and
this one I just don't get the touchpad the click you have to actually
physically press and click to select an item and I just want to be able to tap
I'm very used to the tab that was the whole point of Apple's multi-touch
trackpad years and years and years ago but I don't know if you guys can hear
maybe not because the microphone is a little low but that click when you have
to tap just drives me nuts so in here the first thing I do is come
in here and turn up the color turn the tap to click and then I turn my tracking
speed up because I like to jump around the screen a lot quicker this is a
setting you may not want to change is completely up to you while I'm in here
the other gesture that is enabled that I just don't understand is show desktop
what you do is you use like a pinch sort of thing I can't even do it there you go
so why this is useful I don't know because it rose all the windows away so
all you see is the picture I guess if you want to show somebody your picture
and then try to figure out how to get back into it so
I shut that one off as well I won't spend too much time explaining each
feature I just wanted to throw those two out as a default they're really annoying
and I wish Apple would update that and change it so we're in System Preferences
here and there's a few things that I usually like to go in and change so in
general here I like the scrollbar to appear on either
Safari or Chrome or email or wherever I am so I always change that that's up to
you and then in recent documents depending on the user and what I'm using
it for sometimes I'll leave that on but I also like to change that it I just
don't find it useful I rarely come up here and go to my recent they're gone
now because there is none and I'm happy with the rest of the options in here the
next thing I do is go into my dock and I usually change the size which notably
you can actually go to this little line right here and if you click actual
physical click and hold you can scale it any size you'd like I don't turn
magnification on some people do I just don't for desktop of course I want to
stare at the same desktop as everybody else let's just be boring
you know we'll change it to that there you go again these are very simple
things so display depending on the user that's already set up you might not
actually want to change this but if this is your first time using your macbook
it's going to be set on a default scale it's going to look something like this
hopefully the screen capture captures this basically if you have a retina
macbook you can get more space out of your screen by utilizing those extra
pixels in the screen so they actually display at a 2.5 k I believe it is
resolution so you can choose the scaling you can actually sit kind of in the
middle if you want something that's a little better
I do a lot of video editing so I like it to have the most space available so that
the editors are large and you actually have room to work so that's basically it
from here we might jump back in a couple other times there are a few other things
like in security you can change but I'm going to focus on the desktop right now
and finder so one of the first things I like to do is go up here to finder and
then preferences here in preferences I don't know why but I want to see my main
hard drive you're going to access this drive a lot it's also great for opening
a separate Finder window since for some reason if you have a Finder window a
Finder window open and you go to click down here you actually have to go new
Finder window to open another window it'd be really nice if you could just
double tap this icon right here and get another Finder window so having your
hard drive there if you don't have external drives plugged in is really
nice another thing I like to do is like the connected servers because I do
connect to a few servers in my house here and I have network drives so I like
to be able to see those network drives and they'll appear as so here
so if you have a network drive and you want it to appear you will have to have
this option available and then the last thing I like to do is new Finder windows
I like to be redirected to my home directory which contains like music
documents and all that kind of stuff because I usually work out of those
folders and you can actually if you're working off of an external or something
else like that that's always plugged in you can actually choose a different
directory there so Apple does offer some of those and then if you're working off
of iCloud Drive you can do the same thing in here with tags I usually just
kind of leave this alone but I go over here to sidebar and I change or add I
should say all of these options here and what these are in this Finder window
here are all the links so that you don't just have to go to the home folder which
normally you would just go to your name I can find it right there so you'd have
all of these folders here you can actually have movies and music on the
sidebar I also don't like this all my files it's stupid you can't find
anything in it anyways you're going through thousands of files why why does
it default to all my files it makes your computer take forever to load so I
remove it again these features you can leave them as customized as you will
it's just how I personally set up my device last thing I do in here is select
to actually see the macbook in devices and then I turn off the tags because I
do not use the tags I know a lot of people were out for the tags and we're
really happy that Apple implemented that and kudos to them but I just I don't use
it another thing I like to enable here and in the advanced is show all
extensions on files so if you have a dot jpg or something like that you can
actually see the dot jpg extension it'll be there and then I like to have this
selected although I usually do it myself if I for were to forget
and that's all I really change in here while I have my Finder window open
usually I pick a Finder window that has some items in it so we'll actually go to
applications the default layout on this is actually not too bad and same with
this one here but unfortunately sometimes I wasn't good sometimes you'll
find folders look like this they'll just be scattered all over the
place and that is not productive this is actually default and it drives me crazy
that Apple they have a great sorting mechanism built into finder and it's not
enabled by default so how you do this you open up whatever window looks
absolutely horrible like this one here that I've created create the size you'd
like your regular Finder windows to open so usually I like it to be a modest size
but something I can move around the screen like this you can see the layouts
all horrible there so click in an open white space and go to this show view
options so in here the first thing you're going to want to do I usually
choose open as an icon view you don't have to do this if you like the list
view I don't like the list view unless I have a breakdown of a whole bunch of
movies or TV shows or something like that it's the only time I ever find it
really useful arranged by I usually set as name and as you can see there it
cleans up the folder it adjusts to the size this is why is this not default all
right and then the last thing I do here is put show all items so that you can
see within folders what the items are now before when I was speaking about the
show all extensions as you can see here the names of my movies and stuff like
that actually have a dot MOV or dot mp4 so that's what I meant by showing those
now let's say you want you like this window and you want all windows to open
up like this you need to click the use as default
when you change an item in here so if I were to change this to kind and it would
sort them by kind I need to just sort them by name it's not a big deal to me
it'll open up this use those default so now when I open up any other window
they're still going to appear with that same sort of layout so even your
externals everything you plug into it it's not going to be all mixed up and
crazy like it was before and it can't jump out of grid so you can actually
view your files and it's nice and organized alright so the next thing
we're going to do is we're going to change our Finder window up here Apple
actually introduced in I believe it was Yosemite tab system for finder and it's
really handy but it's again hidden by default so in any Finder window you just
go up here to view and from View you're going to want to go show tab bar you can
also turn on which I'm going to actually turn on show path bar which will
actually show you where you're at in your directory tree and then I like to
go show status bar which will show me the items available in the folder and
the available disk space on this folder particular so which hard drive you're on
if you're on a different drive like here it'll display the stuff and then it will
display the amount of disk space available I like this because I can
create multiple tabs in one Finder window I can drag between them which is
really easy you could jump in you know drag from folder to folder to folder and
it's just handy to have on default when you open that up so that you don't have
to select because you can't go here and make a new Finder window so it's just
easier that you can create a tab created to have create a tab and I like that so
I like having that available by default just so that you don't have to go file
and then new tab to create a new tab or you can alternatively go down here
actually I have to create a new folder so I mean sorry a new window and then
the last thing I really like to do is change up the way my desktop is so if
you exit everything out you're back to your desktop here you can right-click
and go show view and again this is going to be the same
as when we set the default for all of our Finder windows but the desktop is a
little different so I usually actually set the grid on the desktop too as far
as possible I don't normally cloud my desktop up and
if I do want to have a lot of files on my desktop I usually keep that at
default now the reason I do this is because I go here and I go show all info
it's nice to be able to see how much is on these drives the available space so
the detailed information without actually having to select the drive or
go get info and then of course I also do the sort by names so it's nice to have
all the drive sorted and snapping to a grid this one here you don't have to
click a set as default because it is just specific to the desktop and you can
exit out of there so from there you can kind of customize Mac OS a little more
you can grab drag move things around to make it look like your own go on the
internet pick up a couple wallpapers and have fun with it so I wish Oppel would
change it with the default settings so that was a little easier for people to
use I believe that if it was laid out something more like this it would just
be a lot easier you can see I'd like to make a lot of changes with my Mac's but
I still absolutely love Mac's they work so well and they're so easy to use once
they're set up properly so kudos to Apple for making a great product thanks
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