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How do I add home to Finder on Mac?
Choose Finder→Preferences, click the Sidebar tab, and then select the check box to display your Home folder.) In addition to using the Finder window sidebar, you can reach your Home folder in other convenient ways: From the Go menu: Choose Go→Home to display your Home folder immediately from the Finder window.
How do I open my user folder on Mac?
It is at /Users/ or cmd-shift-h in Finder. The user Library has been hidden since Mountain Lion. However, it is simple to reveal. To temporarily reveal it, in Finder, hold down the Option key (alt) and select Library from the Go menu.
How do I open a Mac file without a mouse?
Command-tab to the Finder. Shift-Command-A to bring up the Applications folder. Type in the first few letters of the app (e.g. “saf” for Safari) Command-O to open the app — or more elegantly, Option-Command-O, which will close the Finder window at the same time.
How can I see my home folder in the finder?
You may also want to have a look at Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts (HT1343) which contains a huge list of OS X Lion keyboard shortcuts. In addition to the keyboard shortcuts, your home folder should be visible in the Finder sidebar by default: If not, you can enable it in the Finder Preferences, under the Sidebar tab:
Is there a keyboard shortcut to open Finder?
If you want to go the extra mile, you can use a third-party shortcut manager, such as Quicksilver or Spark, to create a keyboard shortcut that will open a normal Finder window. Alternatively, you can create an Open Finder shortcut in Automator. This discussion on Superuser.com walks you through the process.
How do you open Finder on a Mac?
Luckily, you can open Finder from anywhere in macOS with an easy global command. If you want to quickly open Finder, just press Option+Command+Space. This opens the “Searching This Mac” window. Apple designed this window for quick file searches.