Launch the application you want to use to work with the file, go to the File menu, choose Open and navigate to the file. Click on the Apple menu, choose Recent Items, and then click on the file you want to open. Navigate to the one you want then click on it to open it. Click on the Spotlight magnifying glass icon in the menu bar and in its search box start typing the name of the file, a tag, or part of its content.
When it appears in the list, use the arrow keys to navigate to it and press Return to open it. Third party apps like Alfred and LaunchBar work in a similar way to Spotlight. If you have one of them on your Mac, use its keyboard shortcut to activate it and start typing. Then navigate to the file and press Return. Navigate to the file you want to open and press Command-O or Command and the down arrow to open it in its default application.
Locate the file you want to open in the finder and press the Space bar to preview it. This may be overkill, launching Terminal just to open a file. All the methods above work but they rely on you being able to find and see the file in the Finder.
What if the file you want to open is hidden or invisible? To open hidden files on your Mac, you first need to make them visible, and the easiest way to do that is to use Terminal.
Try this in your Documents and you will likely see a few greyed out folders that were previously closed from view. We often name folders randomly and our important files often end up in some weird location, many folders below the surface. Such a lost folder could take up many gigs of space. It builds an infographics map of your drive that you can easily navigate and unveil hidden folders. There are a number of different ways to open files in macOS. Which one you use is usually down to habit, but some work better than others if you want to control which applications open the file.
Opening hidden files is more tricky, but you can make them visible using Terminal. How To. Hit Return or Enter to search. The difference between this and the Open Recent menu in apps is that this menu shows recently opened files from all apps, whereas each app also has its own Open Recent menu that only shows its own files. You can use Spotlight to search for files — by their name, or even by keywords in their content — and open them from the results.
Just use the arrow keys to select a file and press Return, or double-click it. And if you have folders in that part of the Dock, click and hold a folder icon to see a list of the files it contains.
Select one to open it. If you then want to open the file, you can click the Open With… button at the top of the preview window. This will show the name of the app that is assigned to open that file type, and it will say, for example, Open With Preview. The former lets you open the file with the app associated with its file type, and the latter displays a sub-menu containing all the apps that can open that file.
This is the best way to open a file with an app other than the one that opens its file type by default. If you use the command line, you probably already know that you can open files in the Terminal app.
Just type the open command, followed by a space then the full path to the file, then press Return. Your command should look like this:.
Type open, then a space, then drag the file onto the Terminal window. This copies its file path. Press Return to open the file with its associated app.
I mentioned above that file types are associated with applications. For each file type — such as. But you can change this. Take as an example. But you may have a preferred text editor and want all these files to open with this app.
Select any. Click the menu and select your preferred text editor, then click Change All. The Mac will remember to open all.
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