MacApper Tip: Quickly Drill Through Folders with the Spacebar

Posted by on 09/15/08 in Apple, Featured 

In my opinion, one of the most handy features in OS X is the ability to drag and drop virtually anywhere. I’ve gotten so used to it, in fact, that I constantly try dragging and dropping all over the place when I’m on a Windows machine. However, one quick but useful tip to make drilling through a hierarchy of folders is to use the space bar.

When you have a file that you want to drag into another folder, simply click and drag the file over the next folder. You can wait a few seconds for it to automatically pop open, or open it immediately by hitting the spacebar. This makes it incredibly quick and easy to get a file into any folder you would like. This works with Stacks too, so just hover over a stack, hit the spacebar, and it will automatically open up that stack in a new Finder window that you can then drop into. Another really handy feature of this is that the Finder window disappears if you decide it’s not the correct folder, and it minimizes in the same way that it had maximized before.

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5 Responses to “MacApper Tip: Quickly Drill Through Folders with the Spacebar”

  1. Pierre on September 24th, 2008 8:42 pm

    Lets say that you drag the files to the wrong folder is there a way to go back to the previous folder? I have not figured this one out yet.

    Thanks!
    Pierre

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  3. kat on October 16th, 2008 2:08 am

    Pierre, cmd-Z (undo) always works for me – the files will go back to where they initially were.

    I realized I almost never drag and drop anymore unless both Finder windows are already open or just a click away. If the file is buried within subfolders, I just use Quicksilver. highlight all the files you want to move, load them into the first pane, tab, type “move”, tab, type the first few letters of the folder name you want to move everything to. done. sounds complicated; it’s not.

  4. Danny on February 3rd, 2009 5:32 pm

    I just reinstalled Mac OS X Leopard and I lost the ability to open the folders when I am dragging an item over it.

    Any thoughts on how to get that back?

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