Now you click on it and get this list here that even allows you to go down into subfolders. If I click on it I'm going to see my Applications but it's a lot more useful if I set it to List View. Let's drag that Applications folder over here and drop it in. From there let's dig down into the hard drive level where we see our Applications folder.

So let's go to File, New File Window, and then Go. One of my favorites is the Applications folder.

We can add so much more to the right side of the Dock. The other thing I like to do is to switch to Display as Folder because instead of seeing the most recent document icon there I'm going to see a folder and the Downloads folder actually is a pretty nice looking icon. List View, which you'd think would be the ultimate because you can display a lot more stuff, you have a lot more room, but you can't drag and drop from it unfortunately. Now to make this more useful you could Control click on it and I like switching from Fan to Grid view which I think is a little bit better for downloads. This is very useful as you can click on it and you can see which files you've recently downloaded and you could even drag and drop out of here to some other place or click on them to open them up. There are all sorts of ways to get quick access to applications and all sorts of files by using the right side of the Dock.Д«y default you should already see a Downloads folders in the right side of your Dock. They could be folders filled with aliases. But did you know that you could add folders to the right side of the Dock to make it much more useful. So you probably have your most frequently used apps in the Dock already. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of supporters. Let me show you how you can make the Dock much more useful by adding a collection of folders to the right side. Check out Make the Mac Dock More Powerful By Adding Special Folders at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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