Apple - How to set to open folder with enter in finder?
Any person new to Apple and Mac would find lot of things un-intuitive or just forced on the user, w/o any options to change it. Or it might be that just many of us had their first experiences on Win/Linux systems.
But just found this plugin to finder XtraFinder which among lot of other options allows you to ENTER/RETURN to open a file.
Feeling a lot relieved now! Hope it helps.
As I know you can not set it to enter in a normal way (but maybe exist some tricky way)
but you can change open shortcut by going to System Preferences
> Keyboard
> Keyboard Shortcuts tab
from the left window choose Application Shortcuts
and press +
to add new shortcut then find Finder
in Application and choose Open
in Menu Title
and press any desired shortcut in textbox.
PresButan (Mac OS X 10.4.x-10.7.x): An idiotically named solution to a spectacular UI oversight (rather apropos, eh?).
It also lets you use either the backspace or delete key to delete files.
I can confirm it works (just installed it). Apparently it leverages the accessibility system and uses a daemon to catch the return events.
If you are on 10.3-10.5, you also have the option of using ReturnOpen.