Tiling Finder Windows in Mac OSX & macOS

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12 responses to “Tiling Finder Windows in Mac OSX & macOS”

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   April 8, 2015

   Lex Van (@lexvander)

   That was exactly what I was looking for 🙂 Many thanks!

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2. 

   July 29, 2015

   mcalas

   Awesome! It works perfectly and it was easy to create. Thank you for your time!

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3. 

   December 3, 2016

   Mariusz

   Thank you for your time!

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4. 

   February 2, 2017

   Matthew

   Hi – this looks like almost exactly what I need and I’m not complaining, but instead of saving say, 4 Finder windows side by side vertically, is there something I could change the script to, to make 4 equal windows with 2 above 2? Thanks, gratefully, Matthew

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   1. 

      December 16, 2017

      Random Guy

      Note 1: If the number of windows is 4, then the following script arranges it in a 2 x 2 formation. For any other number of windows, the script tiles them horizontally.

      Note 2: The following script assumes that you’ve a static menu bar at the top of the screen in your Mac OS. If you’ve set the menu bar to be automatically hidden, then change the line ‘set menuBarHeight to 22’ to ‘set menuBarHeight to 0’ and save/run the script.

      tell application “Finder”

      set n to count of window

      set screenSize to bounds of window of desktop

      set screenWidth to item 3 of screenSize

      set screenHeight to item 4 of screenSize

      set menuBarHeight to 22

      if n is equal to 0 then return

      if (n = 4) then

      set windowWidth to screenWidth / 2

      set windowHeight to screenHeight / 2

      else

      set windowWidth to screenWidth / n

      set windowHeight to screenHeight

      end if

      if (n > 0) then

      activate

      set w to 1

      repeat

      if (n = 4) then

      tell window w

      set bounds to {windowWidth * ((-w mod 2) + 1), (windowHeight * (w div 3)) + (menuBarHeight / 2), windowWidth * ((-w mod 2) + 2), windowHeight * ((w div 3) + 1)}

      end tell

      else

      tell window w

      set bounds to {windowWidth * (w – 1), 0, windowWidth * w, windowHeight}

      end tell

      end if

      set w to w + 1

      if w is equal to (n + 1) then exit repeat

      end repeat

      end if

      end tell

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5. 

   March 10, 2017

   GFS

   This is the best implementation of this I’ve ever seen and so fast. I’ve been using similar for years, which work more or less well and less so since OS updates. Well done!!

   One request:

   Any chance of a second version which can tile vertically? (Very useful when using column view).

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   1. 

      April 17, 2017

      richard

      tell application “Finder”
      set n to count of window

      set screenSize to bounds of window of desktop
      set screenWidth to item 3 of screenSize
      set screenHeight to item 4 of screenSize
      if n is equal to 0 then return
      set windowHeight to screenHeight / n
      if (n > 0) then
      activate
      set w to 1
      repeat
      tell window w
      set bounds to {0, windowHeight * (w – 1), screenWidth, windowHeight * w}
      end tell
      set w to w + 1
      if w is equal to (n + 1) then exit repeat
      end repeat
      end if
      end tell

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6. 

   September 28, 2017

   Kris Gorski

   Great! Is there a way to constrict the action to one screen? I have 3 😀

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7. 

   December 7, 2018

   wari

   Thank you so much for taking the time to post this. Im new to Mac and this has helped me tremendously on my workflow.

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   1. 

      December 11, 2018

      Jash Jacob

      Thank you for the comment!

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8. 

   November 17, 2019

   Vince

   2019 and still useful! Thanks!

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   1. 

      May 20, 2020

      Jash Jacob

      2020 and still strong!

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