Having to click the mouse and wait every time a want to rename a file is getting annoying. Is there no keyboard shortcut or way to make one?
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
With the item selected, press Enter.
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With the item selected, press Enter.
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In finder, press the enter key when a file is selected, and you can rename it directly.
Thanks, Phil. I guess it's just a matter of getting used to the differences with Windows. My next question would have been how do you open the file but that is "cmd-o". Honestly, though, which do people do more often? So which should be simplest?
I would say opening a file is usually done with the mouse rather than the keyboard but yes, it did take me a while to get used to press enter to rename a file rather than F2 when I first started using Macs.
Yeah, I use a trackpad and find that hitting Enter (or even cmd-o) more ... ergonomically friendly(?) than double-tapping the pad (I don't use the force-click at all as the pad sits on my couch, not a table). Again, not a big deal, and glad to have found a "rename" keystroke. Thank goodness!
Is there no keyboard shortcut for "rename" in OS X?!?!???
