The Finder & DesktopThe Finder is a program that is part of Mac OS. It launches automatically when you start your computer. The Finder provides a graphic user interface called the desktop (Figure 1) that you can use to open, copy, delete, list, organize, and perform other operations on computer files. Figure 1. Basic desktop elements.![]() This chapter provides important instructions for using the Finder and items that appear on the Mac OS X desktop. It's important that you understand how to use these basic Finder techniques, since you'll use them again and again every time you work with your computer.
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