Hi Erik, If you have Greg Kearney's move.workflow, just open it in Automator (the default), and use Command-Option-S to save it as a plug-in for FInder. Then it just shows up as another menu item in the Finder contextual menu. I select files or folders, use VO-Shift-M to bring up the contextual menu, press "a u" to go to the Automator option and right arrow to the submenu. If there's only one saved plug-in that automatically selects the "Move" plug-in, and I press return. Otherwise, I arrow down or press "m" to navigate to "Move". The Finder dialogue window will appear and you just navigate to or select the folder you want to move to, which can be on another hard drive, USB memory key, etc. All your files are automatically moved to the new location.
I would have suggested this to Anouk, but the original web site that hosted Greg's scripts is no longer available now that he has moved to Australia. I think there's still a post in the archives about where to find the script in his MobileMe public iDisk, but I can't bring up the Mail Archive site to search for it right now. HTH Cheers, Esther erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hi Anouk > > It's always driven me a little bit crazy not to be able to move > files.. I have a lot of data and the fact of haveing to wait for > minutes or even hours to copy files when I could move them in seconds > is sheer assinine stupidity. So I got something called move.workflow > which is supposted to let you move files in stead of copying them in > finder. I don't know how to use workflows though, and never have > figured out how to get the thing to do what I want. It can be done > though I'm sure. > > I prefer having all the items in my explorer sorted by alphabet > personally. It makes it much easier to get to any file or folder by > pressing it's first few letters. > > Best, > > erik burggraaf > A+ certified technician and user support consultant. > Phone: 888-255-5194 > Email: [email protected] > > On 2009-11-03, at 8:50 AM, anouk radix wrote: > >> >> Hello everyone. I just read the apple help shortcut section but I >> cant >> find anything about selecting files, i can select one files or all >> the >> files in a directory but i cannot find how I can select a few files >> to >> copy, also I dont like the fact that finder does not show directories >> before showing individual files. Is there a finder alternative that >> works with snow leopard and allows you to select files that you can >> then move to a different directory and delete them from the original >> path? It would also b enice if it could show directories before >> files. >> I am planning to call apple support later today to ask them if there >> is a command for selecting files but I dont think they will know the >> answer. >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
