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What is the keyboard shortcut to select multiple files?

I have the wireless keyboard and Mac OS 10.6.8. How do I select multiple contiguous files in Finder? I've tried shift + click, fn + click, control + click, option + click, and command + click, but nothing works. Is there some burried setting somewhere to enable a key shortcut?

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Wireless keyboard

Posted on Aug 30, 2011 8:29 PM

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Aug 30, 2011 8:35 PM in response to DragonSpot

Shift-click is the standard to select multiple, contiguous items, including files in the Finder.


However, shift-click doesn't select contiguous files if you're in icon view - presumably due to the ill-defined concept of 'contiguous' in this setup.


So if you're in icon view, shift-click might not do what you want - in which case either switch to list view, or just drag an area on the window to contain the iterms you want to select.

What is the keyboard shortcut to select multiple files?

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