Chapter 2

File Management and Sharing

One of the more confusing aspects of using any personal computer is managing the thousands of files that can accumulate over a very short span of years. If you're like me and keep all of your documents, photos, music, videos, and other random bits of information on your Mac, pretty soon you'll find it becomes difficult to navigate around all of that data.

Apple has made some great improvements to file management in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and that's what I'll be describing in this chapter. There are new views available in Finder that make browsing and organizing your files much more like playing with an iPhone or iPad, flicking through lists of file icons.

AirDrop is a new and intuitive way of sharing files ...

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