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You can print directly from the finder by pressing command-P when a file is selected. I've pressed it inadvertently a few times when trying to open a file (command-O, adjacent to P).
To me, this is a bad idea. There is no confirmation of any sort, it immediatley prints. I'm in an office with a default printer set, and if I didn't pay attention I might send something to the printer without realizing.
I'd like to know how to disable this. Thanks.
Thank you kindly Andy, for your correct suggestion. It lead me in the right direction.
I've accidentally sent pages upon pages of programming to a printer and wasted so much paper cause I fat-fingered command+p instead of command+o . Also, when you quick print it closes what you choose to print, which is real convenient incase you blink and totally miss that you sent 43 pages of programming to print.
For the longest time, I set my default printer to a print that didn't exist to avoid this accident, if that is any indication of how long I've battled this flaw. I too consider this issue to be a big oversite, ESPECIALLY for how eco-friendly Apple is because this oversite costs paper.
HOW I REMOVED command+p FROM FINDER:
Open System Preferences > click Keyboard > click Keyboard Shortcuts > click Application Shortcuts in the left panel > click the "+" button below the right panel > Select Finder as your Application: > set the menu title to exactly the case-sensative value of "Bring All to Front" > set Keyboard Shortcut to "command+p" by actually pressing the-command-key+p-key
I tried setting the Keyboard Shortcut of command+p to "Open" but the command+o stopped working.
_Acker Dawn Apple
Thank you kindly Andy, for your correct suggestion. It lead me in the right direction.
I've accidentally sent pages upon pages of programming to a printer and wasted so much paper cause I fat-fingered command+p instead of command+o . Also, when you quick print it closes what you choose to print, which is real convenient incase you blink and totally miss that you sent 43 pages of programming to print.
For the longest time, I set my default printer to a print that didn't exist to avoid this accident, if that is any indication of how long I've battled this flaw. I too consider this issue to be a big oversite, ESPECIALLY for how eco-friendly Apple is because this oversite costs paper.
HOW I REMOVED command+p FROM FINDER:
Open System Preferences > click Keyboard > click Keyboard Shortcuts > click Application Shortcuts in the left panel > click the "+" button below the right panel > Select Finder as your Application: > set the menu title to exactly the case-sensative value of "Bring All to Front" > set Keyboard Shortcut to "command+p" by actually pressing the-command-key+p-key
I tried setting the Keyboard Shortcut of command+p to "Open" but the command+o stopped working.
_Acker Dawn Apple
Does this work still in ML ?
follow http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3957; make a shortcut for the 'Print...' command (including the ellipsis if that shows in Finder's Edit menu for print), only for Finder; & give it a different key combo - say Command-Option-Shift-P
Command-P should now be inactive, just for Finder
You can't unless you plane to re-write the Macintosh Toolkit, Command-P is default for printing since day one on the Mac. Every program adheres to it. You have a suggestion because of your typing miss-steps post here:
www.apple.com/feedback
However, I doubt you'll get anywhere.
Try going to System Settings --- keyboard & mouse --- there should be a tab for keyboard shortcuts. Maybe you can change the behavior there.
How do you disable cmd-p printing from finder?
