Mavericks also has features that reflect a world in which people use multiple devices. Searching by the tag will automatically pull the relevant file up. It doesn't matter anymore what folder I put it in. With tags, I can label the file with all five and find it more easily come tax time - or audit.
A receipt for a museum membership might go under "receipts," ''museum," ''charity," ''taxes" or in a folder for the credit card I used. The problem is that an individual file might belong in a number of folders. I've been trying to go paperless by scanning or requesting bills and receipts electronically, but they've been scattered in more than 100 folders and subfolders. It's similar to the approach Google's Gmail uses to organize email. To further assist with file management, Mavericks lets you assign one or more tags to files. I can access files and move them around more easily. All the tabs are neatly organized at the top of a single window. Tabs mean I no longer have to accept that clutter. Instead, I resigned to the clutter and the inefficiencies that came with it. If I closed them, I'd have to go through the trouble of finding those folders and drives again later.
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As I opened a file here and move a file there in previous versions of the Mac OS, I could easily have a half-dozen or more windows open. The change may seem cosmetic, but it saves time. You can now use tabs rather than separate windows for various folders, disks and networked servers. That concept now comes to file management as part of Mavericks, which Apple released Tuesday for new Macs and older ones running Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion. Many years ago, Web surfing changed dramatically when the Opera browser offered a way to open multiple Web pages in tabs instead of separate windows that cluttered the computer desktop.
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Mavericks has plenty of modest refinements that add up to a system well worth the upgrade - even if Apple weren't giving it away for free. There isn't one thing that jumps out with Apple's new Mac operating system, known as Mavericks - and that's a good thing.