Automate the Finder
The Finder is a special app that runs all the time and lets you navigate all the files, folders, and apps on your Mac. You use the Finder to organize, tag, and locate files; connect to other devices on your network; mount and unmount servers and external drives; and perform numerous other activities that involve files, folders, and volumes.
The Finder is also the main place people go to open apps that don’t appear in the Dock. When you want to launch an app, you might open a Finder window, click Applications in the sidebar, scroll to the app you want, and double-click it. Similarly, if you want to open a document in its default app, you might dig through any number of nested folders in the Finder and then double-click that ...
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