[thejew]

I agree with all of your points. I have done tons of research on how to use the keyboard only.

1. If the window is minimized (minimize with Cmd-M) you can Cmd-tab to it let go of Cmd hold tab and press option and let go of tab and the window will reappear.

2. I use Cmd-W to close windows and Cmd-M to minimize windows. If you hold Shift while double clicking the title bar of the window you can maximize it in the same paradigm as windows.

3. I use the shortcuts.

4. see 2.

5. Yes.

6. If you hold Cmd-option-I after selecting files.

7. Cmd-O for Open. It started to make more sense to me.

8. Sometimes you can press (and this is inconsistent) Control-(the letter the button that you want to press starts with, so Control-C for Create)

9. Sure there is a cut operation.

[tmd83]

Thanks for the Cmd-Option-I, never even thought about googling for this.

I know some of the shortcuts including how to open something but some of the defaults here are not about mac being different from windows (commenting on the parent) but stupid at least to my understanding. No one renames file more than they open it in a file browser so making the most frequent operation in a file browser a two key shortcut is irrational. Same goes for multiple files showing multiple info window. I think windows/linux now even shows you warning when you have too many files selected and you press return. OsX the first time I tried Cmd+I on multiple files opened 140 info windows. How many times in your lifetime do you want that when pressing Cmd+I on files?

And lets not talk about highly expert commenters on apple forum explaining why cut paste is supposedly something that can make you loose files :(