How to use keyboard shortcuts to navigate the OS X Finder sidebar?
I don't believe it is possible, the only shortcut I can find for the sidebar is CmdT which adds a shortcut for the current selected item to the sidebar.
Another solution is to hit Cmd↑ to move to the 'enclosing folder', which will take you around the file system.
I've been looking and looking for an answer to this too. I can't find an answer (in Snow Leopard at least, don't know about Lion).
The best work-around I've found is this:
- Create a "Shortcuts" folder anywhere
- Drag that into the Sidebar
- Create Aliases for the folders you have in your Sidebar and move them into your Shortcuts folder
- Open Sidebar Preferences (right-click anywhere in the Sidebar)
- Go to the 'General' tab
- Change 'New Finder windows open:' to your Shortcuts folder.
This way, every time you launch a Finder window, you'll be inside Shortcuts and have access to your favourite folders with the keyboard.
YMMV... Obviously this requires you to manage a different set of shortcuts... But possibly it'll help until Apple address this problem (I've submitted a bug report too, surely this is a bug).
You can use "Go To Folder" in the Finder to get to any of those. cmd +shift+G Then just fill in the filepath: ~/Desktop | /Backups | and so on.