Tips: Mac

I jumped ship from Windows to Mac, so I'm trying to keep track of the tips and tricks I learn as I go. I doubt there's anything groundbreaking here, but if you're a Mac newbie like I am, they might be of some use. I'm on 10.5 Leopard, so they might be different if you have an older version.

Finder Tips

Full Path View in Finder


Open Terminal, and type:

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

You'll have to restart finder to get it to show:

killall Finder

Terminal Tips

Remove .svn dirs

find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Keyboard Tips

Command + Tab: cycle through apps you have open

Command + ` (tilde key): cycle through windows in the same app

Command + Shift + g: go to a certain folder. Handy for Finder or other programs where you don't want to navigate through a bunch of folders to get where you wanna go.

Command + Shift + h: go to the Home folder in Finder or the file browsing window.

Command + Space: Open Spotlight, for quick searching and app launching.

Born: Nov. 12, 2008, Filed under: tech mac, Viewed: 42 times