Self Service
Speed up Finder
Streamline your file management with these handy shortcuts. How many of these are new to you? Change to icon, list, column or Cover Flow view instantly using ç+1, ç+2, ç+3 and ç+4, respectively. In icon view, you can jump into the selected folder with ç+æ, while ç+… takes you to the parent folder. ç+[ (left square bracket) jumps back through the history of folders you’ve visited, like your web browser’s back button and ç+] jumps forward again. In column view, double-clicking a column divider will automatically resize the column to the left of the divider, so that it is exactly wide enough for the longest file name in that folder. ç+I opens one Get Info window each for whatever files and folders are selected. Pressing ç+å+I instead opens an Inspector that summarises the entire selection, and it updates as you add to or remove from the selection. ç+c copies a file to the Clipboard and ç+v pastes that copy at the current location. But ç+å+v also deletes the original file, effectively moving the file to a new location.