I download many apps, documents, and other files during the day, and the space in my Downloads folder builds up fast on my drive. I use an external hard drive to save local drive space and point my ...

A few months ago, I opened my Downloads folder to search for a file, and it froze. It was a complete mess. Screenshots, invoices, installers, and random PDFs were all jumbled together, and it was ...

How do you guys deal with Downloads folder's growth? I have 1300+ items in there and it's very sluggish when I click on it in stacks view. How do you organize it (short of deleting everything)? Also, ...

If you've ever opened your Downloads folder only to find a ton of files you don't need, reader Márton Mészáros has a simple tip for keeping yourself organized: use your computer's temporary folder. If ...

Back when Windows Vista was but a twinkle in Bill Gates’s eye, Microsoft had some extremely ambitious plans to rid computer users of an outmoded concept called “files.” But alas, WinFS (as the company ...

No matter how organized you are, it can be hard to sift through a giant downloads folder for what you're looking for—especially if you don't know what the file's name is. Sort your downloads folder by ...

Reader Charles Bilkin is unsatisfied with a Safari feature, he writes: When I used Safari running under Tiger, my downloads would go to the Desktop. Now that I’m using Leopard, they go into the ...

Several months ago I started replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync ("BTS" for short) for my file-syncing needs, and I couldn't be happier with the results. One study showed BTS was up to 16 times ...