When I click on the Documents or Downloads folder in the Dock, a Grid comes up. Is there a way to get it to just open in the Finder? Instead of having to click on Documents and then click on Open in Finder.
How to get the Dock to open the Documents and Download folder in Finder
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Related Solutions
Try removing PDFs from the stack's contents. Source
If that doesn't work, try backing up and removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist and relaunching the Dock (killall -HUP Dock).
Go to Finder → Preferences and change the default folder:
Best Answer
Right-click or Control+click on the Documents folder in the Finder, and click 'Make Alias'.
You probably want to move the alias somewhere else and rename it "Documents". Then, drag the Documents alias into the Dock.
Voíla, a link to the Documents folder instead of a Documents folder stack.