Nov 03
Spaces rocks. It’s going to change the way many people multitask. The one “oddity” those who have played with it have likely found is that selecting the Finder by clicking in the Dock or pressing Alt-Tab will whisk you away to another space with a Finder window already open, assuming there isn’t already one in the current space.Since many find it useful to keep Finder windows pertinent to their enclosing spaces around, we need a good way to create a new Finder window in the current space. There are a few ways to do this:
- A simple solution to this, of course, is to click on the Desktop to focus the Finder, and press Command-N. If you’re like me, however, the Desktop is hidden at least once over, even with Spaces.
- Another option is to Control-Click on the Finder in the Dock and select “New Finder Window.” This is nice as it opens at your preferred default, but it takes two clicks, which is annoying.
- A final alternative, and my personal preference, is to take advantage of the “Reveal in Finder” functionality of the Dock. By Command-Clicking on any application or stack, you will invoke a finder window focused on (but not open at) it.
