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April 22, 2008

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Today’s tip is brought to you by the shortcut “command-R”

Posted Apr. 22, ’08, 9:16 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Tips

Open dialogI remember when I was but a wee lad, living in a small log cabin in the woods of New England. Those were the days: chopping fire wood for the cast iron stove, catching fresh trout for dinner, reading by candlelight. Simpler days, when all the commands in the Mac OS were spelled out for you in menus.

But we’ve passed those days, and now we get the same arcane keyboard shortcuts that we used to tease other platforms for. Take this hint from our brothers and sisters over at Mac OS X Hints: did you know what happens if you select a file in an Open dialog box and command-R? No? Me neither until I read this. Turns out that it’ll take you to the location of that file in the Finder. Hey, that’s actually pretty handy. But it’s one of those things you probably wouldn’t even figure out without your cat stepping all over your keyboard.

If you’re wondering what happens when you try the same trick in a Save dialog box, let me save you the precious seconds of experimentation: it doesn’t quite work. For one thing, you can’t select a file in a Save dialog box. You can, however, select a folder, but if you try it, you’ll see that focus does shift to the Finder, but it doesn’t open the folder you’ve selected. Alas.


2 Comments

k09 said:

works in Itunes as well.

April 22, 2008 9:37 AM
TX Mac User said:

This also works in iTunes, where it is listed in the File menu.

April 22, 2008 10:01 AM

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