OS X Finder Tips

It’s been a while since I used that program but the title bar icons should work the same everywhere and it’s command-click, not ctrl-click. In which case ‘right click’ is not a substitute.

The boon of dropping along a path? When you can’t see the results as you’re somewhere else at the time? I’d pass on that.

I actually use Expose’ sometimes for advanced drag-and-drop copying.

Open the source and destination windows (if necessary). Click on the file in question, press F9 (or your custom shortcut) to show all windows in Expose. Hold the file over the window you wish to copy it to. Wait until the window becomes active, then let go of the mouse button.

This can be convenient if you have lots of windows open and want to move a file or folder between two windows. Works for Finder windows and any app that supports drag n drop.

Bot

I think you meant to say Command-Click to get the menu - and that is anywhere within the title, not just on the icon. Ctrl-Click gives you nothing.
As for the icon being a proxy, that is correct. If you click and hold on the icon for a second, it will turn dark, and then you can drag and drop it to wherever you want and it will act on that document/folder (again, in the Finder OR in other apps, like word or TextEdxit, for example).
Leopard adds a beautiful new path bar at the bottom of every window (if you want it) look in the views menu.

Rick / Eytan,

Like i said… it IS control-click in Leopard (command-click was in Tiger but still works in Leopard)

So right-click IS a substitute when you are running Leopard, this allows you to access the function without using the keyboard

Darwin9

right click or ctrl click works in the 10.5 finder…. I dont think it did in 10.4

Sweet! I have always had a 3rd button, so it was never an issue for me. I like the control click, since I can do it on my trackpad now - but while command click will only bring up a menu when over the window title, ctrl-click will bring up a DIFFERENT menu if you just miss the icon area…

BTW - Don’t know if you know that the same trick (COmmand/Control-Click) in a Safari title will show you the URL Hierarchy - check it out….

Eytan:

I never knew about that one! good find, thanks!

Darwin9

I don’t know if it counts as “Finder related”, but if you click an icon in Dock while pressing option+command every program except that one will be hidden. If you press option while clicking the minimize button, every window in that application is going to be minimize, and lastly (also my favorite), if you use the list view in Finder, you can hold down option while clicking an “expand arrow” for an folder, that will expand all folders inside that one, recursively :)

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