Mac 101: Enter directory paths when in open/save dialogs

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Incredible support, great app.

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Command+D for the desktop. Nice and simple for a popular location.

Nice tip. And experimenting further I discover that (on Leopard at least) most of the other Finder keyboard shortcuts work in the open/save dialog box.

So you can go straight you Shift+Command+I for your iDisk or go straight to the Applications folder with Shift+Command+A.

And you can change the dialog view with Command+1 (Icons), Command+2 (List) etc.

I'm loving that background! I downloaded that one several months ago. This is a very useful tip. It's certainly going to save me a lot of time. I'm all about key commands instead of having to reach over and move the mouse to select folders.

Same keyboard shortcut also works in Finder.
While this could be really great feature, I often get frustrated using it.

Tab completition? half baked at best.

it completes "/Library/A" to "/Library/Application Enhancers/", when I really want "/Library/Application Support/" and it gives me no way to easily change already completed path. I have to manually delete path to the point "/Library/Application S" and then press Tab.

or I could wait one second and it will auto-complete without pressing Tab (this way it doesn't put cursor at end of path). Inconsistent!

I wrote to Apple about this some time ago. Hopefully new Finder will handle it better.

Path Finder got it really good. But I wont abandon default OS file browser just because of goto folder dialog...

Hey, that's neat! I never knew you could do that!

You don't even need to type that shortcut. Instead if you just type ~ or / inside a file dialog box, it automatically pops up the "Go to the folder:" sheet with that first character already entered in the box.

An easy way to remember: Cmd-G = Cmd-"Go".

And, of course, you can use tab completion: ~/Do [tab] [enter]

JaysonL: /Volumes/Drive/...