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Click an image at the top of the window to see its information in the lower half of the window.

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Tip

If you want to change which columns are visible in List view, choose View, Show View Options and check boxes to choose which columns show up in the active window.

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Tip: Switch Hitting

Lists can be sorted in ascending or descending order. Click the active column header to switch from ascending to descending order or vice versa. A triangle in the list column header indicates which way the list is sorted.

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Selecting Files

It might seem obvious, but before you can do anything with a file, folder, or disk in the Finder, you must select it so that the Finder knows which object(s) you want it to act on. A couple of selection methods enable you to select more than one item at a time while leaving out those you don’t want to use at the moment.

In any folder view, click a file or folder to select it.

Shift-click another file or folder to select it along with all the items between it and the first object you selected.

to select noncontiguous items.

In icon view, click and drag to select a group of icons.

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Tip: Selecting Everything at One Time

To select all the items in a folder (or on the desktop), click the folder’s title bar to make sure it is the active folder; then either press or choose Edit, Select All.

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Moving and Copying Files and Folders

Keeping your computer tidy is mostly a matter of putting things where they belong. That means moving and copying files and folders to different locations. You have to be authorized to open folders to which you’re copying items, which means you can’t put files in other users’ folders, for the most part.

To move an item to another folder on the same disk, drag and drop it into the folder’s window.

To copy an item to a location on a different disk, drag and drop it into the folder’s window.

To copy an item to a different location on the same disk, press Option while you drag and drop it into the folder’s window.

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Tip: Another Way to Copy

To make a copy of an item in the same place, press Option and drag the icon a little away from its current location or choose File, Duplicate.

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Tip: Using Copy and Paste to Copy Files

Control-click the file you want to copy and choose Copy from the menu. Control-click in an open area of the folder’s window where you want to put the copy and choose Paste Item.

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Making a New Folder

This is one task that often trips up people who are used to older Mac systems in which you used to press to create a new folder. Now, that keyboard shortcut brings up a new Finder window instead of creating a new folder. You’ll get used to the change, and you’ll find that being able to create new Finder windows this way is pretty useful, too.

To create a new folder, choose File, New Folder (or press ).

Type a name for the untitled folder; to change the name, see the next task.

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Tip: You Don’t Have to Start from Scratch

If you need several folders with the same name and, perhaps, a different number tacked onto the end of each, create the first one and create copies of it as described earlier in the task “Moving and Copying Files and Folders.” Then replace “copy” in the folder name with the numbers or text you want.

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Renaming Folders and Files

Some people like to include dates and similar information in filenames so anyone can tell what’s inside; others don’t care if anyone else can make sense of their filenames. Whichever camp you fall into, you’ll need to know how to change the names of files and folders so that they make sense to you.

Click to select the item whose name you want to change.

Keep the mouse cursor positioned over the name.

When the item’s name becomes highlighted, type to replace the old name with the new one. Press Enter when you’re done.

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Tip: Extended Filenames

Each filename has