We refer to this keyboard command so frequently here on OSXDaily that we just sort of assume everyone knows it, but its so useful and powerful that its worth making an individual post about it.

Its very powerful and becomes incredibly efficient once committed to memory and utilized to jump around the file system with ease.

If you hear the system alert sound instead, that means there are other alternatives that start with the same first letters, so just type an additional letter in the sequence and hit tab.

This also works with network paths and mounted volumes, so if you wanted to provide someone on your LAN with a quickly accessible path to a file or directory, that drag drop feature is all the more useful.

Again, tab completion and drag and drop support works in here, and this is a much quicker way to access some directory paths than clicking around.

The utter, pure puppery of Apple developers buggers the imagination.

It is an essential component of Finder, it is a built-in menu in every version of Mac OS.

I only wish Id found you in September when it would have saved me 10 hours of work.

This time, you saved me losing critical notes from a conference call.

Then we could forget about yet another shortcut we could live without.

Try dropping a folder anywhere in the window except the text field and nothing happens.

All text fields allow dropping text on them, and all filesfolders drop themselves as their absolute path in a text context.

When the go to folder pops up and I copied a path before why cant I use cmd v I always have to use the mouse, also for clicking OK, is there an alternative to avoid using the mouse Another question linked to this is, can I, like on Windows, just click OK or CANCEL by the keyboard ENTER doesnt work and TAB for changing also not Thanks a lot.

In bash, there is a configuration setting to make the tab completion case-insensitive.

Does the same thing, learns iteratively, has other options besides go to (like rename, move, trash, get path, reveal in finder, open new document in, etc.) and also works for applications besides the Finder.

QS also provides support for using arrow keys, has the tab trick, and using the comma trick allows for selecting multiple files or folders to perform those actions on (i.e., I can go to several folders at once without leaving the QS dialog box).

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