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Use Command-select and drag-select together
Authored by: MJCube on Oct 07, '05 10:35:58AM

Command-click to add or subtract individual discontiguous items from the selection in a Finder window does go back to the beginning of the Mac, yes. But Command-dragging over a blank area in a list view, as a way to add an additional range to the selection without dragging the items at the same time, was new with OS X. In the old Finder, Command-clicking on a blank area did not add to the selection in any view. When column view (from NeXT OS, of course) came to Mac, certain subtle changes in the way list views are handled came with it.

More recently, deselecting has changed a bit in Tiger, as ChaChi notes below. Command-dragging over a range of already-selected items doesn't work to deselect them in column view (exception carefully noted in thread below). It does still work the intuitive way in list view, so I don't know why this change was made. Also, when I mis-drag like this and drop the items in the same location, the Finder still makes the file-operation noise even though nothing happened, which is a bug IMO.

And you can still get the old selection rectangle in icon view, if anybody uses that any more.



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