setting up keyboard shortcut for opening finder help

2011-12-29 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, I read somewhere recently that there was a way to add a keyboard shortcut to open finder. I went to the commander category in vo utility but when I chose open application finder was not in the list of apps. I did a spotlight search for finder and did not find the app either. What am I

Re: setting up keyboard shortcut for opening finder help

2011-12-29 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Ioana! Do you not use command+tab or command+shift+tab to get to the finder! Colin On 29 Dec 2011, at 16:32, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi all, > > I read somewhere recently that there was a way to add a keyboard shortcut to > open finder. I went to the commander category in vo utility but wh

Re: setting up keyboard shortcut for opening finder help

2011-12-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Why would you need a short cut key to open Finder? It's always just there. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Dec 29, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: setting up keyboard shortcut for opening finder help

2011-12-29 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, or if using Lion, they can just press F11. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Dec 29, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi Ioana! > Do you not use command+tab or command+shift+tab to get to the finder! > Colin > > On 29 Dec 2011, at

Re: setting up keyboard shortcut for opening finder help

2011-12-30 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi the f11 is very cool. What is its function? "go to desktop?" It makes a dashboard sound when I press it? Thanks for the tip. Ioana On Dec 29, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > or if using Lion, they can just press F11. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & S

Re: setting up keyboard shortcut for opening finder help

2011-12-30 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Just to make it easier to not have to cycle with command tab ofr go to dock. Same reason for creating a mail shortcut although it is easy to go to dock and press mail. Just less steps. Take care, Ioana On Dec 29, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Why would you need a short cut key to op

Re: setting up keyboard shortcut for opening finder help

2011-12-30 Thread Hai Nguyen Ly
Good afternoon, You could paste the following in to Apple script and associate the script file with a keystroke. This would allow you to have just one keystroke to access the finder window. I can't remember if this list allows for attachments, so just in case, I've attached the Apple script file

Re: setting up keyboard shortcut for opening finder help

2011-12-30 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
thanks and question about script location was: Thanks so much for this! LikI said the f11 going to desktop is good enough but it was fun to install my first script! What is the best location to put the scripts? I read on the web that one should put it in ~/library/scripts but it appears to be th