Kirsten, I don't know of any specific help for finder, but how about the
MAC's help system? That should have something.
In the meantime, I'll try to give you a thumbnail sketch of its use.
There are four "views", or ways of interacting with finder.
command+1, Icon view, which I ignore.
command+2, List view which is good and has its own uses.
command+3, column view, my favorite and I think the most useful.
command+4, cover flow view, again, I totally ignore this view.
When you command tab to the finder and land on on the desktop, you have to
first open a basic finder window with Command+N.
in the finder window:
the sidebar is a listing of various devices and folders on your system, and
you can select those devices or folders in the sidebar table. Although, I
tend to ignore the sidebar, and just drill down and up through the file
structure in the files and folders list. The "Go" menu also has alot of
shortcuts to get you into certain main folders on your system.
Once in a device or folder, and depending on your selected view, there is a
"files and folders" list at the far right which will let you browse and
access sub folders and files under that main folder. By the way, The title
bar just to the left of the toolbar always tells you what folder you are
currently in.
In list view,the files and folders list is a table that you interact with
and VO down and up arrow through the contained files and folders. to expand
and collapse subfolders in list view, you need to press VO \ (above the
return key). To set the current folder (according to the title bar) to the
current folder in list view, you have to "open" the folder with command down
arrow. And, to move back up one level to the parent folder, you use command
up arrow. Any pasting you do in Finder is done according to what the current
folder is (as stated in the title bar), and with list view, you have to be
careful to "set" the current folder with command up and down arrow keys.
Column view is different in that just arrowing to the folder in the browser
sets it as the current folder, and if you then do a paste command, the files
get pasted into that folder.
List view's main advantage is that you can get meta data about the file or
folder by VO right arrowing across the table and hearing the "date modified,
"size", etc, which you don't get in column view.
Column view (command + 2) I think is easiest to use
in column view, the table at the far right is called simply browser, and you
interact with it to get at the subfolders and files of the currently
selected folder or device (check the title bar when in doubt).
Once in column view, just arrow up and down (no VO keys needed) through the
list of enclosed files and folders, and to expand and collapse sub folders,
just right and left arrow.
Hope this gets you started.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirsten hill" <keesa.h...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 9:35 AM
Subject: Help with Finder
Hello:
Is there a resource available that I can use to understand the file
structure and navigating within finder using voice over?
Sent from my iPhone
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