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Finder shortcuts:
Cmd-down – navigate into folder (down)
Cmd-up – navigate up from current folder
Spacebar – preview a file
Shift-Cmd . – toggles display of hidden files
Other tips:
When using multiple monitors, if you pull the mouse cursor down on a screen you can move the Dock to that monitor.
As MacOS switched to zsh replacing bash a while back (you may have noticed the prompt to change to zsh in your Terminal), I keep coming across a few issues that I need to work around. My latest was that I noticed apps I’d installed globally with ‘npm install -g’ were no longer in my path.
Following a combination of suggestions from answers to this question, I added the following line to ~/.zshrc to add the npm global install dir to my path:
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.npm-global/bin"
It appears the right-click and ‘Burn to’ menu on an ISO file in Finder that didn’t work a couple of months back has been fixed at some point. I currently have 10.15.2 and it’s now working as expected:
From here:
hdiutil convert /path/imagefile.dmg -format UDTO -o /path/convertedimage.iso