Lets assume that I am currently working on safari and I now wish to open finder to the 'Computer' folder.
Pressing Shift+Cmd+C works when finder is activated. However, is there any such keyboard shortcut that would work when finder is not the forefront application and the user wishes to open the 'Computer' folder?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
The Finder is "always running".
You can switch to the next active Application with Command-Tab.
You can click on the desktop to make the Finder active, but that will not get you the "computer" window unless that window were already open and you clicked in it.
this article has a long list of keyboard Shortcuts across Mac OS X in various situations:
alt + cmd + <space>
That is very interesting. It does invoke a Finder window, and the article describes that shortcut as:
Show the Spotlight search results window (if multiple languages are installed, may rotate through keyboard layouts and input methods within a script)
Hey Avik_Banerjee
There`s a way to setup the keyboard to open a Finder window.
Open System Preferences > Spotlight and at the bottom of the window you have to check both menu (as show in the picture)
I dont know why has a exclamation but it works for me.
I hope that help you.
It's not the cmd key that you need to press with the option and space keys; it's the Ctrl key.
So the correct key combination to bring up the Spotlight window is: Ctrl + Option + Space
Really?
Because in my keyboard setup I can bring Finder window by pressing command + option + space bar.
My keyboard is setup as International PC - USA.
You can download an app, "Hot Key" for example, focuses on launching applications. There you can just select whatever app you want to customize the shortcut for launching it.
But do be careful not to mess up with the original system's default shortcuts as they have different priorities.
keyboard shortcut to open finder
