I was googling about multiple selection of files in Finder and this thread came high in the results.
First the facts that most of us Finder users already know:
My files are beeing shown as LIST in Finder (CMD+2)
CMD+mouse-click: Used to select multiple individual files that are not continuous.
SHIFT+mouse-click: Used to select
ONE block of multiple files that are continuous like this: Click the first one and SHIFT+click the last one.
But what about the combination of these 2 methods? Why Finder does not let us use both methods together as it is done in Windows? You can CMD+click so many individual files you want, but you cannot select multiple blocks like in Windows, when you try this in Finder you lost your selection.
Look at this example:
Code:
File 1
File 2
File 3
File 4
File 5
File 6
File 7
File 8
I want to select Files 1,2,3 and files 6,7,8
In Windows:
I can click File 1, then SHIFT+CLICK File 3, then CTRL+CLICK File 6 and CTRL+SHIFT+CLICK File 8. Both selection blocks are preserved.
In OSX:
I can click File 1, then SHIFT+CLICK File 3, then CMD+CLICK File 6
BUT when you want to use SHIFT for the 2nd. time (CMD+SHIFT+CLICK) your hole previous selection gets screwed up.
How can we achieve this with Finder?
IMO this is pretty basic file managing and should be offered by Finder. The basics are already there. It is like the silly copy-paste drama that lasted years. I remember Apple and many fanboys defending the NO-IMPLEMENTATION of copy-paste in the form that it was implemented in Windows, and at the end Apple implemented it in Finder because IT MADE SENSE.
