That was my suggestion a few days ago. It works for me quite fine.
Here the script again. Just save it as scpt and give it a shortcut in the
keyboard commander:
tell application "Finder"
open folder "Macintosh HD:User:YourUser:Downloads:"
end tell
Just replace "YourUser" with the user name of your home folder.
Am 16.01.2011 um 23:21 schrieb Chris Moore:
> k what about creating an apple script or an automator action to open the
> download folder? This could then be triggered from the keyboard commander.
> On 16 Jan 2011, at 21:57, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>
>> I believe I tried that but it didn't work.
>>
>> S
>> On Jan 16, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Chris Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Could you not just create a shortcut in VO utility for the keyboard
>>> commander?
>>> On 16 Jan 2011, at 19:45, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hmm, I believe I could write a little apple script to create an alias for
>>>> the selected item on the desktop. I wonder if that would work just for
>>>> file / folders or for other items :--
>>>>
>>>> tell ap First guess:
>>>>
>>>> tell Application "Finder"
>>>> set a to the selection of the frontmost window
>>>> set thedeskTop to the path to the desktop
>>>> make alias to a at theDesktop
>>>> end tell
>>>>
>>>> Note: the above is just a guess
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>> new Alias to
>>>>
>>>> On 15 January 2011 01:46, Marlaina Lieberg <1guide...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I do command shift h which puts me in the home folder, then I type d o w
>>>> very quickly and bingo, there I am. Command shift h is a god send! I
>>>> don't know why, but it took me forever to realize that, :)
>>>>
>>>> Marlaina
>>>>
>>>> PS. Command shift a is also a god send to get to the apps folder. But
>>>> then, you didn't ask about that, LOL!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> you can do command shift H to bring up the home folder then arrow down to
>>>> your downloads folder.
>>>>
>>>> hth
>>>>
>>>> Ricardo Walker
>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com
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>>>> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I really thought there was a shortcut for this, but now I can't figure it
>>>>> out. I know Command-Shift D brings up the desktop, Command-Shift O opens
>>>>> documents, isn't there a similar shortcut for downloads?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks in advance for any help.
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Donna
>>>>>
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