Thursday, May 3, 2007

The QuickSilver Files: Quick Folders and Select All

When spelunking the file system with QuickSilver, you can use the "/" key to navigate one level down on a folder and "SHIFT-/" to back up a folder. The combination of this with smart incremental search for names makes QuickSilver more efficient than most Finder operations.

One other file/folder related trick. If you want to select all the files in a folder, navigate into the folder and hit "APPLE -A". This is the standard "select all" keyboard shortcut, but it took me a little while to realize this worked in QuickSilver too.

QuickSilver: let go

2 comments:

edoreld said...

Really useful trick! Thanks :D

Tim Phillips said...

Thank you - I don't know why I haven't tried it in the last five years of using quicksliver!