Find out how to select multiple files in OS X

Normally the action of clicking and dragging a file in OS X is simple and practically most users know how to carry it out without problems, however I have also been able to verify that there is another wide range of users who get frustrated when dragging or select multiple files in the finder, since here you have to take into account a few combinations or keyboard tips to achieve our goal.

In this article we will show you how to select from a large group of files with a single combination of keys to choose alternately files that interest us, leaving others behind.

Select a contiguous group of files

Here we have three well differentiated options, one is the possibility of clicking on the trackpad or mouse clicking and dragging the grid over the files we want to copy.

The second option is to use the combination Shift + Click, that is, we will first place ourselves in the first file and we will press click and then with the Shift key already pressed, click on the last file that we want to move with which all those files between the first and the last that we have clicked will be selected, as long as we are in list mode since in the icon view it does not work the same, selecting only one at a time.

And finally the third option would be Command + A, which would select all the files inside that folder.

Select multiple files non-consecutively

For this we will use another different combination, this time it will be Command+Click the type of keyboard chosen to carry out this action so we will only have to click on the first file that we want to drag and with CMD or Command pressed, click on each and every one of the files that will make up our group, once chosen all of them we will drag them to their new location.

We can also use this combination in reverse, that is, we can select an entire window with CMD + A and use CMD + Click to remove those files that we don't need.

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