Hi Esther.
You amaze me. Ok, command shift c and command shift h do not work in text
edit, but command shift g worked and so that is what I will do from now on. I
really appreciate your help so very much.
I'm off now to try the copy and paste solution, since that will work really
nicely for my nls and audible books as I transfer them to the sd card.
Again, you amaze me.
Marlaina
On Dec 24, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Marlaina,
There are a few ways to save or navigate to a specific folder that is
not one of your standard folders or shortcuts. First, for an external
drive, you can either use your Finder Sidebar, where external drives
will show up, or you can use Command-Shift-C, which will show you all
drives attached to your computer (which will include an entry for
Arthur, and any other attached drives). However, another convenient
shortcut is Command-Shift-G, which is a shortcut for "Go to Folder".
This lets you type the path to any folder on your system, including
both local and external drives. The path can either be typed relative
to your current directory or it can be a full path name. For example,
if I want to move to my Music folder, and I'm in my home directory, I
could simply type "Music" into the text field after using the Command-
Shift-G shortcut. But if my current Finder location is set to a
different folder that doesn't have a "Music" sub-folder (if I'm
starting from my "Documents" folder, or a system library folder), then
I have to type in the full path name: "/Users/esther/Music" The full
path name to any file is one of the pieces of information that can be
found when you do a Command-I ("Get Info") on a file. Alternatively,
it can be faster to use the shortcut, Command-Shift-H, that puts me in
my Home directory ("/Users/esther"), and then use Command-Shift-G, and
only have to type "Music" in the text field before pressing return.
In the case of your external drive, if you're working from your main
hard drive, you could use the Command-Shift-G "Go to Folder" shortcut,
and type or paste in the full path name:
/Volumes/Arthur/ACB/Board/Minutes/
then press return. These Finder shortcuts work for file save dialog
windows, as well as for working directly in Finder, so when prompted
for where you want to save a file in TextEdit or other applciation,
you can use any of the Command-Shift-G ("Go to Folder"), Command-Shift-
H ("Home directory"), Command-Shift-C ("Computer"), Command-Shift-A
("Applications Folder'), etc. shortcuts. This also means that if you
are using Move workflows or programs like MoveAddict, you can enter
the destination locations as full path names (like "/Volumes/Arthur/
ACB/Board/Minutes/"). Once you've specified the folder location on
the external drive once in a "Save as" dialog, it should show up as
one of the options on the pop-up menu bar when you press it (VO-Space)
for a choice of folder locations, since recent folders are listed, and
you won't have to type the full path name again.
And if you're keeping both local copies of files in TextEdit, and
copying selected files over to a folder in an external hard drive,
another thing you could do is bring up a new Finder window (Command-N)
and navigate to the folder on the external drive in the new window.
(This could also be a folder on your current drive but in a specific
location). Then you can switch apps (between TextEdit and Finder) with
Command-Tab, and switch windows within Finder, if needed, with Command-
Accent (where "accent" is the grave accent key located above the tab
key and to the left of the "1" key at the left edge of an English
language input keyboard), You can then copy to the directory folder
you want, in the Finder window of your choice.
HTH. Cheers,
Estehr
On Dec 24, 8:12 am, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I asked this yesterday, but since gmail doesn't let me see my own list posts
> and since nobody commented, I'm wondering if it reached the list.
>
> My question is just as the subject line says: Arthur is my external drive.
> He contains a folder called ACB, which contains a folder called Board which
> contains a folder called Minutes. I can't figure out how to get Arthur to
> open and show me the ACB then the Board then the Minutes folder. All I seem
> able to do is save to the root of Arthur which means I have to then copy my
> file to the ACB/board/minutes folder, then come back up to the root of Arthur
> and delete the file I just copied. Am I doing something wrong? This problem
> exists when saving attachments in apple mail and saving documents in text
> edit. I haven't tried it in pages; I don't like pages as well as text edit.
>
> Thanks so much, and sorry for the second post in the event my first one made
> it and I'm just being too impatient.
>
> Marlaina
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