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Oct 25, 2004, 11:03 AM
 
What character can I put at the beginning of a filename so that it will go to the end of an alphabetically sorted finder window?

I know that on Mac OS 9 you could use the bullet character for this, but apparently not on OS X.

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Oct 25, 2004, 09:43 PM
 
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Oct 25, 2004, 10:25 PM
 
Option-Z.
     
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Oct 26, 2004, 02:29 PM
 
Thanks, dtriska. Too bad that omega character is even more distracting than a "z".

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Oct 26, 2004, 02:34 PM
 
Originally posted by B.I.L:
Thanks, dtriska. Too bad that omega character is even more distracting than a "z".
a bullet (opt-8) used to do it in OS 9...I'm not on an OS X computer at the moment, though, so I can't check.
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Oct 26, 2004, 06:07 PM
 
Originally posted by B.I.L:
I know that on Mac OS 9 you could use the bullet character for this, but apparently not on OS X.
Originally posted by Stradlater:
a bullet (opt-8) used to do it in OS 9...I'm not on an OS X computer at the moment, though, so I can't check.


     
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Oct 26, 2004, 06:16 PM
 
Originally posted by B.I.L:
Thanks, dtriska. Too bad that omega character is even more distracting than a "z".
But you asked what character, and it certainly works. Can you find another one? I didn't know that would work. :-D

The bullet - option 8 - does not work in OS X, as it did in OS 9 as that is exactly the character I used and it wasn't too distracting.
     
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Oct 26, 2004, 06:37 PM
 
Originally posted by AKcrab:


whoops

shift-option-K (apple) works.
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