Renaming files/folders in Snow Leapord

[SAWYER]

I imported some video from my camera to my son's mac. I have tried renaming the files and folders but can't figure it out. I get a label option but see nothing about renaming.

 

[secretanchitman]

its basically the same thing in windows - click the file twice (have a second delay between each click) and it will be highlighted so you can edit. alternatively, you can click the file once (highlighted) and press the enter key. you can edit that way as well.

 

[SAWYER]

Thanks

 

[TheStu]

I like the enter key method, don't have to take your hands off the keyboard that way.

 

[alfa147x]

Right click -> Get info -> under "Name and Extension:"

 

[Dmudgkvddjnv]

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[sourceninja]

I almost never use finder. I prefer the terminal.

 

[alfa147x]

I almost never use finder. I prefer the terminal.

Hardcore! Bad Ass!

 

[TheStu]

Hardcore! Bad Ass!

Wicked! Rad! Awesome!

See, I can do it too 🙂

 

[TheStu]

I almost never use finder. I prefer the terminal.

You use the terminal for like... everything? I... um, wow. To each their own, but I just find navigating nested folders faster with a mouse. Though I suppose if you are crazy fast on the keyboard and use simple folder names...

 

[sourceninja]

You use the terminal for like... everything? I... um, wow. To each their own, but I just find navigating nested folders faster with a mouse. Though I suppose if you are crazy fast on the keyboard and use simple folder names...

Tab completion all the way. I know where I want to go 90% of the time. I can type it a lot faster then clicking. Plus my magic mouse tends to want to edit when I want to open. When I don't know what I"m looking for it's cmd-space for spotlight or good old unix find.

Plus I'm not a fan on how finder handles copying/moving folders. cp and mv work as expected in my head.

Granted I'm not going to open a terminal to move a folder from my desktop to my documents, but anything that takes more then a quick drag/drop I use the terminal.

 

[TheStu]

Tab completion all the way. I know where I want to go 90% of the time. I can type it a lot faster then clicking. Plus my magic mouse tends to want to edit when I want to open. When I don't know what I"m looking for it's cmd-space for spotlight or good old unix find.

Plus I'm not a fan on how finder handles copying/moving folders. cp and mv work as expected in my head.

Granted I'm not going to open a terminal to move a folder from my desktop to my documents, but anything that takes more then a quick drag/drop I use the terminal.

Growing up on Win95+ until I switched to Mac got me used to the explorer/finder mouse methodology.

I use the keyboard a lot more on OS X than in Windows, so many useful shortcuts, and the fact that you can assign your own to anything really help with that.

Anytime I have to play with Terminal I am a little saddened, but it is useful for some things, like turbo-killing apps, deleting un-deletable files, and modifying .plist and ownerships, but past that I don't really touch it.