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Stupid Sidebar Tricks
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A couple keys on the keyboard can get you precisely what you want when you’re flying through the Finder.
This Snippet also shows you how to add a printer to your Sidebar.
More on the Sidebar in a previous post.
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6 comments to “Stupid Sidebar Tricks”
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19. December 2006 at 7:01 am :
Thanks for this - probably a stupid question, and I’m can’t try this for myself till I get home, but why can’t you just drag the printer to the sidebar directly, without going via another window first? That would seem more intuitive.
Is this just a Finder “feature” ?!
19. December 2006 at 1:51 pm :
>>why can’t you just drag the printer to the sidebar directly, without going via another window first? That would seem more intuitive.<<
Strangely, it just doesn’t seem to work that way. Although you can drag the printer directly INTO a Sidebar item, which will create an alias for the printer inside that Finder folder. For whatever reason printers aren’t something you can add to the Sidebar, but an alias is.
-Murph
14. February 2007 at 4:48 am :
You can drag a printer to the Finder toolbar, which still works in Tiger even if Apple doesn’t seem to advertise it any more. Personally I keep locations (folders and volumes) in the sidebar and drag targets (apps and printers) in the toolbar.
14. February 2007 at 5:49 pm :
Select a file Apple + t ! Its a tab! well almost… It just needed a remove last sidebar shortcut to really work :{
14. February 2007 at 8:40 pm :
You can also drag them to your dock for the same effect !
10. July 2010 at 2:31 am :
Sweet tip. Works like a charm.