Thanks to Phil and John! I am such a newbie to the Mac and I really appreciate the help.
Sent from my iPhone On 2013-07-18, at 10:25 AM, "Phil Halton" <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
