Re: Keeping Finder Windows Open

2020-04-04 Thread Lorie McCloud
my experience with this is that you can have however windows open that you want. you can cycle around through all of them using command-accent or whatever that is. maybe you have a different finder setting somewhere than I do but I've had 3 or 4 windows open many times. > On Apr 4, 2020, at 7:2

Re: Keeping Finder Windows Open

2020-04-04 Thread Dave Carlson
Lorie, I know about the Command+~ to switch between open windows. My problem is keeping them all open. It’s rare that I ever have more than two open. When I try to open a third, the previous one closes. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer -- The fol

Re: Keeping Finder Windows Open

2020-04-03 Thread Lorie McCloud
the way I do this is command-tilde from wherever I am. most of the time that will take me to my home driveor Macintosh hd. from that window I navigate to wherever I want the second open window to be and then I can use command-tilde to go between them. it'll say: "Cycle through windows." Lorie

Re: Keeping Finder Windows Open

2020-04-03 Thread Brad Snyder
With a Finder window open, use CMD + ~ to move focus to the Desktop, and then use CMD + N to open a new Finder window. Then use CMD + ~ to switch between open Finder windows. As an alternative, sometimes you may want to use tabs instead of separate Finder windows. To create a new tab in a Finder

Re: Keeping Finder Windows Open

2020-04-03 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
If you do not already have Finder set to open windows in tabs, change that in its preferences. Then simply command tab between open tabs. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 4/3/2020 9:34 PM, Dave

Keeping Finder Windows Open

2020-04-03 Thread Dave Carlson
Here’s something I can’t get to work with any consistency… I like to have more than one Finder window open at a time, pointing to different drives or folders. Sometimes I can switch between then using VO+F2 but more often when I go to the desktop to open another volume or folder, the current one