Hi Ted. I want to tell you one difference, and it’s simple, but it drove me crazy until I figured it out when I first got my Mac. In Finder, if you want to copy to a folder, and you have have pressed command c on the file, you don’t want to press the Enter key when you get to the folder you want to copy to. You just get on top of the folder and press either command v to paste a copy or option command v to move the file. I know you didn’t ask that, but I can tell you that if you forget like I did more than once and press the Enter key when you are on top of a folder, you will find yourself in the rename place, and new Mac users may have trouble figuring out what happened for a while. I like pressing Enter on top of a foler or file to rename it now, but I created some interesting file organizations on my Mac when I first got it because of this.
Gigi > On May 8, 2015, at 1:11 AM, Grant Hardy <grant.li...@icloud.com> wrote: > > The method you’re using is perfectly reasonable. However, you can easily have > multiple Finder windows. To open a new Finder window, press COMMAND+N. To > cycle through open windows in an application, including the Finder, press > COMMAND+GRAVE or COMMAND+SHIFT+GRAVE to move in the opposite direction. These > commands both wrap. The GRAVE ACCENT KEY should be the key just below the > ESCAPE KEY, at the left edge of the number row. To close a window, press > COMMAND+W. With two or more Finder windows open, you might have an easier > time working between two or more separate locations. > > As an aside, make sure you check out the Go Menu in the Finder menu bar to > review all the keyboard shortcuts you can use to jump around the file system. > For example, to get to your documents folder, you can press COMMAND+SHIFT+O. > You can also set the default folder that should be displayed when you open a > new Finder window. This is done from the general page in Finder’s preferences. > > Grant > > On May 7, 2015, at 7:25 PM, Ted Phillips <tedmusi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I forgot one question. How do you work effectively between two windows, such > as on two drives? Do you use spaces or two finder windows? I have not been > able to figure that out. If I want to copy a document from one folder to > another, I go get the document, close the folder, and then go and paste it in > the new location. Is there a better way to do this? > Thanks all, and forgive me for asking what might be obvious to long-time mac > users. > > Thanks all > > Ted Phillips > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
