Every key and gesture in Mac Explorer. Filter by what you want to do, or by the keys themselves.
Most shortcuts are ignored while you’re typing in a text field. The ones tagged works while typing (⌘K, ⌘⇧P, ⌘, ⇧⌘T, ⌘T, ⌘W, ⌃Tab) work everywhere. On the Disk Usage page, keys that would change files do nothing.
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Global
Works from any app on the Mac.
⌃⌥⌘space
Pop the menubar panel with search focused. Type to search the index, or paste any path and press ↩ to go there.★
Navigation
⌘[
Back
⌘]
Forward
⌘↑
Up to the parent folder
⌘↓/⇧↩/⌘O
Open the selection (enter a folder, open a file)
Double-click
Open an item
⌘↩
Open the selection in a new tab
Middle-click
Folder: open in a background tab. File: open it.on a row
⌘⇧H
Go to Home
⌘L
Edit the path bar: type or paste a path, ↩ to go, ⎋ to cancel. ~ expands, and a missing path offers to create the folders.★
⇧⌘T
Go to Path… box, pre-filled from the clipboard (escaped, quoted, ~, file:// and macexplorer:// paths all work)works while typing★
⌘G
Go straight to the path on the clipboard (no box)
⌘click
Copy that folder's pathon a breadcrumb segment
Tabs & windows
⌘T
New tabworks while typing★
⌘W
Close tab (closes the window when it is the last one)works while typing
⌃Tab
Next tabworks while typing
⌃⇧Tab
Previous tabworks while typing
⌘1–⌘8
Jump to tab 1–8
⌘9
Jump to the last tab
Middle-click
Close tabon a tab
⌘N
New window
⌘⇧O
Open window (focus an existing one or create one)
⌘⇧W
Close window
⌘M
Minimize
⌃⌘F
Toggle full screen
Search & palettes
⌘K
Search files (This folder / Everywhere toggle)works while typing★
↑/↓
Move through resultsin ⌘K
↩
Open the hit: a folder opens; a file opens its folder with the file selectedin ⌘K
⌘↩
Show all results as a full-pane results page (up to 1,000)in ⌘K★
⌘I
Index the current folder, then re-run the searchin ⌘K
esc
Close the search palettein ⌘K
↑/↓/↩
Select (drives Quick View) / openresults page
⌘⇧P
Command palette: every command, fuzzy-searchable, with its keysworks while typing★
⌘,
Settingsworks while typing
Selection & file list
↑/↓
Move the selection
⇧↑/⇧↓
Extend the selection
PageUp/PageDown
Move a screenful
Home/End
First / last item (add ⇧ to extend)
Click/⇧click/⌘click
Select / select a range / toggle one item
⌘A
Select all
Type a name
Type-ahead: jump to the first matching name★
esc
Close the topmost thing (path edit, viewer, search, palette, settings, Get Info, Disk Usage, results), then clear the selection, which turns Quick View into the folder's image gallery
Tab
Move focus from the tree to the file listin the tree
Files
↩/F2
Rename (Finder-style: the name is selected, not the extension)
↩/esc
Commit / cancel a rename (clicking away commits)rename field
⌘C/⌘X/⌘V
Copy / Cut / Paste files (shared across all Mac Explorer windows)
⌘⌥V
Move items here (paste as move)
⌘D
Duplicate
⌘⇧N
New folder (starts renaming it)
⌘Z
Undo a file operation: copy, move, rename, new folder/file, compress, extract (50 steps). Moving to Trash is not undoable.
