Better still, if I do Command Shift G and I down arrow it will give me a list of recent ones that I've selected. So I can, for instance, get to my Home folder's document folder by Command Shift G and then ~/ documents, I don't need to worry about capitalization, and it will jump to that folder as well. So if I want to say my Home folder slash music I can go there. ~/, those two characters, represent my Home folder. But I don't have to do that because I can use the ~ character which on American keyboards is just below the Escape key. So you'd think I'd have to give this long path from the root level. If I type the name of a folder, let's say like music, it won't find it that way. It brings up this Go To Folder entry here. If you want to get anywhere you can use Go To Folder. Then I can use the arrow keys and get along in there. For instance, if you wanted to go to Recents, it's Shift Command F. Now if you want to jump to somewhere else you can use a lot of keyboard shortcuts that are here under the Go menu. Then return again will exit the Edit mode for the name of that item selected. You can also rename any file by hitting the return key and it instantly goes into Edit mode for the name. So you can open a file and it will open up in the application that it was meant to by simply using Command O. Now when you want to open a file the keyboard shortcut for that is Command O. I can move over here, Shift and select multiple items as well. Shift to the right and I select multiple items. You can also select multiple items if you want but holding the Shift key. So you can move around as much as you want and jump between modes using the keyboard. You can see not only can I go up and down with the arrow keys but I can go to the right and to the left with arrow keys as well. How about Column View? Let's do Command 3 to get to Column View. So you can navigate around in List View efficiently as well. I can do Command right and it opens it up and left will close it. But what if I wanted to actually open up that folder like you normally would by clicking on this little triangle here. I can do Command and then down to jump into it and Command up to go back. Now it would be nice to open this folder. Nothing is selected but if I do the down arrow you see it immediately selects the first item and I can use the down arrow to go between items. I'll do Command 2 to change to List View. If you look here under View you can see Icons, List, Columns, Cover Flow all have keyboard shortcuts. Now let's say I want to go and dive down into a folder, so I do Command down, and let's say I want to view in another way. If I want to go back up a level, even with nothing selected because I don't need anything selected to go up, I do Command up and I go back up a level. Now without clicking how can I get into a folder? Well all I need to do to dive into a folder, let's say this Docs folder here, is I use Command and down and that jumps down into the currently selected folder. So I can jump to just about any item here in Icon view using arrows. But if I were to use my arrow keys, let's say the right arrow, it instantly decides it's going to select the very first item since nothing has been selected so far. So let's take a look at navigating around here in the Finder without using the trackpad at all. In fact knowing the keyboard shortcuts for things can really help speedup your navigation doing a combination of using the cursor and the keyboard for things. But you can actually do everything using the keyboard. Video Transcript: Now the Finder may seem like a very cursor, mouse, trackpad oriented place.
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