Command-option-drag files in open and save dialogs

Mar 21, '02 12:15:11AM

Contributed by: sine08

as a user who doesn't have nor want a scrollwheel equipped mouse, i was quite happy when finding this one: in every "open file" and "save file" dialog in os x, you can press command-alt for scrolling in the columns by dragging the contents up and down.

at the same time all clicks still select the item you are over, which means that it's very easy to select multiple items which are not viewable at once and would require scrolling to see the next.

this way you don't have to go back to the scrollbar over and over again when choosing multiple items distributed in a folder with many documents or finding a certain item.

[Editor's note: We published a hint on doing this in column view a while back, but no mention was made of the fact that it works in open and save dialogs as well.]

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