Luckily the answer is simple and reasonably easy to remember: When working with Mac OS X, to copy a file (or multiple files) from one Mac Finder folder to another, just hold down the key when dragging your files from one folder to another.

How to copy files on Mac OS X using drag and drop Unfortunately that's not usually what I want to do usually I want to copy the file, which recently begged the question 'How do I copy files when using drag and drop?' It turns out that when you drag and drop a file between two Finder windows on the same Mac OS X filesystem you end up moving the file.

The keyboard shortcut to move focus to next window ⌘ +` is hard to access and if your input is focused on a place that can be used to write doesn't work because his priority is writing text in this case: backtick character.Mac drag and drop FAQ: How do I copy files on a Mac OS X system using drag and drop between one or more Mac Finder windows? One thing that I dislike on MacOS is switch between apps because can't enable an option to switch between windows. More complex combinations can be applied from ke-complex-modifications Sometimes period key on Numpad writes a comma, that why remapping as the period it's a good choice.Īnd if you have problems with and ºª keys, swap them with non_us_backslash and grave_accent_and_tilde. Just select on target device PC Keyboard and define these keys change on Simple Modifications tab: And this forgotten Application Key can resurrect as ⌥ Option (or ⌘ Command). Select your PC Keyboard (my wireless Logitech keyboard was identified as “USB receiver”) on the list and switch ⌥ Option to ⌘ Command and ⌘ Command to ⌥ Option press button and …Ī better approach is to use Karabiner: an excellent keyboard customizer.īecause you can modify the behavior on each key, event on the left o right side. Go to System Preferences → Keyboard and select and press the button. The last step consists of telling macOS, to change this keys behavior. Tada!!! … now you have the same physical (and visual) order as mac keyboard. I highly recommend seeing some youtube videos about removing keys or cleaning keyboards. This is mac keyboard distribution (with alt on left):Ĭaution: Before removing any of the keyboard keys, unplug the keyboard from the computer or turn off the computer.

I will show you how you can hack your PC keyboard to work as a mac keyboard. I think it’s better to use some systems with his default configuration. In the beginning, it’s really hard to switch your mind because the control keys win/alt/ctrl keys are made in different order ctrl/option/command. I have been working all my life on PC/Linux, now I’m working with macOS due to Xcode dependency for iPhone compilation.

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