When you use the Finder's shortcuts often, you may want to change some of them to better suit your needs. For example, I did not like the shortcut for the 'back' button in a Finder window. By default it is command [, and I wanted to change this to command B' which is the current shortcut to hide or show the toolbar.
Read the rest of the article for a quick how-to on editing Finder shortcuts...
[Editor's caution: Although not overly difficult, if you're not yet comfortable with the terminal, root privileges, and UNIX file permissions, I would recommend holding off on this hint. You do not want to mess up key files used by the Finder! I have not tried this hint myself.]
The Finder shortcuts are stored in a 'Localized.rsrc' file, and that is in binary format, so you will need HexEdit or another hex editor. You can change the shortcuts in this way:
% cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
% cd /Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
cp Localized.rsrc Localized.bak
cp Localized.rsrc ~/Desktop/
chmod 777 ~/Desktop/Localized.rsrc
New Finder Window . NReplace the character(s) after the shortcut name(s) with the one(s) you like.
cp ~/Desktop/Localized.rsrc Localized.rsrc
chmod 644 Localized.rsrc
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