Mac Tip - Renaming Files
Here's something for the "how did I not know this?" category.
On Leopard/Snow Leopard, if you want to rename a file, you click on it, pause, and click again. However, somehow lately my machine interprets that as "double click" and opens it, no matter how slowly I click. (Possibly a mouse preference got changed somehow, who knows?)
I was trying to re-name some files to meet the listing requirement of "no spaces" at ARe, and it was driving me nuts. Click-pause-click, and Calibre would launch. No, that's not what I want. Rinse. Repeat. I opened the same file five...damn...times.
In my frustration I decided to try and find a better way, and lo and behold, click-return did EXACTLY what I needed it to.
Fiendishly simple.
Here's the post where I found the four-year-old info:
Better late to the party than never.
On Leopard/Snow Leopard, if you want to rename a file, you click on it, pause, and click again. However, somehow lately my machine interprets that as "double click" and opens it, no matter how slowly I click. (Possibly a mouse preference got changed somehow, who knows?)
I was trying to re-name some files to meet the listing requirement of "no spaces" at ARe, and it was driving me nuts. Click-pause-click, and Calibre would launch. No, that's not what I want. Rinse. Repeat. I opened the same file five...damn...times.
In my frustration I decided to try and find a better way, and lo and behold, click-return did EXACTLY what I needed it to.
Fiendishly simple.
Here's the post where I found the four-year-old info:
Better late to the party than never.
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Oct 31, 2011 09:02AM
This is kind of late, but I just wanted to thank you for this tip. I had to rename a bunch of files the other days and this was so much faster than the click-click method.
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You're so welcome! It's a lot better than accidentally opening every other one, too :D
