Rename files in Mac OS X keyboard shortcut and how to get extended file info in Mac OS X

Sunday, 6th October 2013

rename file-or folder in mac os X howto

I'm very new user of MAC OS X and starting to learn from the very basics. I don't own MacBook myself and I use temporary a friend's one til recently I was very anti-MAC OS minded. But after spending some time working on Mac I can admit in terms of design and simplicity MAC is not bad at all.
After some use a very logical question was raised in my head today, i.e.;

How to rename a file in MAC OS X using a keyboard shortcut?


In Linux and Linux I do it by pressing F2, I guessed same should work on MAC OS but cmd (command) + 2 doesn't do anything in MAC).

After quick check in Google I figured it out and I was deeply shocked by the way this is done!
 

  • To rename on MAC OS I had to click over file which want to rename once, then presses Enter and type in the new file name.

In both Linux and Windows pressing over the file with Enter with open it with Internet Explorer or if a binary .EXE will launch it … honestly this keyboard configuration is one of the weirdest things I've seen so far.

Whether you need to rename a Folder instead of file is done again by clicking over Folder and pressing Enter.

Other useful keyboard shortcut for MAC OS users, I've just found is CMD + I – opens file information window with various useful info.
Below is output from CMD + I on one of images stored on Desktop

mac OS X extended file information by pressing Command + I screenshot

Of course there are other methods to rename file using Mouse. To rename via mouse its necessary do;

  • Delay Click over file name to rename

Other method for console maniacs is to just use mv (move command) via Terminal, just like in UNIX, i.e.:

# mv file-name1 new-file-name

 

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