How-to
Short, task-focused instructions for ComfortFiles. One task per page.
- How to Cut and Paste Files in ComfortFiles
Move files with ⌘X and ⌘V, exactly like Windows Explorer — or send them straight to a folder with Move To and Copy To, and undo with ⌘Z if you change your mind.
- How to Use the Address Bar in ComfortFiles
Jump anywhere by clicking breadcrumbs, or type and paste full paths — an Explorer-style address bar on macOS.
- How to Use Tabs in ComfortFiles
Open folders in tabs with ⌘T and move files by dragging them from one tab to another.
- How to Preview Files with Quick Look in ComfortFiles
Press Space on any file for an instant full-size preview — the same Quick Look you know from Finder, inside ComfortFiles.
- How to Batch Rename Files in ComfortFiles
Rename many files at once with four patterns — Find & Replace, Add Text, sequential numbering, or change the extension — with a live preview and a single undo.
- How to Make ComfortFiles Your Default File Viewer
One switch in Settings makes folders from other apps — "Reveal in Finder", "Show in Finder" — open in ComfortFiles, and one click reverts it.
- How to Use the Preview Panel in ComfortFiles
A side panel that previews the selected file and tells you what it is — dimensions, camera settings, page count, 3D mesh stats — with the actions for that file type underneath.
- How to Summon ComfortFiles from Anywhere
Enable the global shortcut ⌃⌥⌘Space to bring up ComfortFiles from any app — like a file manager on speed dial.
- How to Change the View and Icon Size in ComfortFiles
Switch between the detailed list and icons, make the icons bigger or smaller with ⌘+ and ⌘−, ⌘ + scroll, a trackpad pinch or the slider, and see how many items are in a folder without opening it (⌘J). Each tab remembers its own view.
- How to Browse ZIP, RAR and 7z Archives in ComfortFiles
Open a ZIP, RAR or 7z like a folder, edit a ZIP without extracting, compress to ZIP or TAR, and lock a ZIP with an AES-256 password — right from the context menu.
- How to Rotate, Convert and Combine Images in ComfortFiles
Rotate photos losslessly, convert between JPEG, PNG, HEIF and more, combine images into one PDF, and cut the background out — from the right-click menu, without opening an editor.
- How to Undo File Operations in ComfortFiles
⌘Z takes back renames, moves, and deletes — including restoring files from the Trash. What can be undone and how far it goes.
- How to Merge, Split and Compress PDFs in ComfortFiles
Merge, split, compress, rotate, extract or remove pages, and turn a PDF into images — all from the right-click menu in the file list, all on your Mac, and none of them touching the original except the one you can undo.
- How to Use the Trash in ComfortFiles
See what's in the Trash — including on external drives — empty it, and restore mistakes, without switching to Finder.
- How to Browse Network Shares in ComfortFiles
Open SMB shares from the sidebar like in Finder: expand a network computer, pick a share, connect with your credentials.
- How to Search for Files in ComfortFiles
Filter the current folder as you type, or build an advanced search with name, kind, date, and size criteria — and save searches you reuse.
- How to Show Hidden Files in ComfortFiles
Toggle hidden files with ⌘⇧. — the same shortcut as Finder — from the View menu or Settings. The choice sticks across relaunches.
- How to Customize Quick Access in ComfortFiles
Pin the folders you actually use, drag the rows into the order you want, and hide the built-in entries you never open — all from the sidebar itself.
- ComfortFiles Keyboard Shortcuts
Every shortcut in ComfortFiles, and what each one maps to in Windows Explorer — ⌘L for the address bar, ⌘F for search, Tab to switch panes, F2 to rename.
- How to Sort, Filter and Group Files in ComfortFiles
Click a column header to sort — and folders stay on top on every column, in both directions. Plus choosing which columns you see, filtering a column, and grouping the list.
- How to Give ComfortFiles Full Disk Access (and Why It Asks)
macOS hides Desktop, Documents, the Trash and external drives from apps by default. Granting Full Disk Access once lets a file manager show them — here is how to grant it, why a relaunch is needed, and what happens if you skip it.
- How to Choose What ComfortFiles Opens With
Have ComfortFiles restore your last session, or start every time on My Mac or a folder you pick. Where the setting lives, and what a fresh start keeps rather than forgets.
- How to Uninstall ComfortFiles
Drag the app to the Trash — that is the whole of it. What macOS cleans up by itself (login item, default file viewer), and where the two leftover files live if you want the disk spotless.
- How to Use ComfortFiles in Dark Mode
ComfortFiles follows your Mac between light and dark, including the automatic switch at sunset. Or pin it to one theme, whatever the Mac is doing.
- How to Activate Your ComfortFiles License
Paste your key into the License panel and click Activate. Where the panel lives, how many Macs one license covers, and how to move it to a new machine.
- How to Change the Language in ComfortFiles
ComfortFiles speaks eleven languages and picks yours from your Mac. Choose a different one in Settings ▸ General, or set it back to follow the Mac.
- How to Open Files and Folders With Your Own Apps in ComfortFiles
Name the apps you actually use — VS Code, Terminal, Obsidian — and they appear at the top of Open with, for files and for folders. macOS cannot offer an app for a folder; this can.
- How to Scan a Document or Take a Photo Straight Into a Folder
Continuity Camera in the file list: right-click, choose Import from iPhone or iPad, and the photo or scan your phone takes lands in the folder you are looking at — named, selected and undoable.
- How to Get Photos Out of the Apple Photos Library on a Mac
Browse your photo library like a folder in ComfortFiles: albums, years and months, then drag any picture out as a real file — the original the camera wrote, not a re-encode.
- How to See What Is Taking Up Space in a Folder on a Mac
Select any folder and ComfortFiles measures it, then shows the biggest things inside as a ring with their share and size — no separate disk-cleaner app, no scan of the whole drive.
- How to Preview Code and Markdown Files on a Mac — in Colour
ComfortFiles previews source files with syntax colouring in the side panel and under the space bar, with line numbers and a wrap switch — no Quick Look extension to install.
- Where Are the File Commands in ComfortFiles — the Command Bar
New, Edit, Sort, Group and Refresh sit in a row under the address bar, the way Windows Explorer arranges them, with the view controls at the right end.
- How to Create a New File in a Folder on a Mac
Right-click, New ▸ File, and pick a type — ComfortFiles keeps a list of the file types you actually make, and you decide what is on it.
- How to Preview a Markdown File on a Mac Without Opening an Editor
ComfortFiles renders .md files as documents — headings, tables, code blocks and working links — in the side panel and under the space bar, with no editor and no extension to install.
- How to Find What Is Taking Up Space on a Mac
Storage measures your home folder, the whole disk or any attached drive, then lists what is actually worth a look — large files and folders, app caches, leftovers, old downloads and duplicates. Nothing is moved or deleted until you say so.