Keyboard shortcut (or automator app) to open currently open finder window?
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I have a Stream Deck and I am hoping I can make a button I can press that will activate finder and move me to a currently open finder window - just as if I clicked on Finder on the Dock. (I can do this for every other app by just launching the app) I figured out how to "launch" finder by launching the Finder app tucked away in the System folder, but it doesn't quite do what I want (see below.)
I've gotten very close from these other articles:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/114933/is-there-a-keyboard-shortcut-to-bring-up-finder
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/322902/how-to-automate-right-clicking-finders-dock-icon-and-choosing-action
But they all do the same thing as
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open -a Finder
in terminal——they make Finder active, but *if I have a finder window open on another monitor in full screen* it does not move to it, it only shows Finder in the menu bar.
I can't seem to find a way emulate the exact action of clicking the icon in the dock, which *does indeed* jump to the correct "spaces desktop" (full screen Finder window) on another monitor, whether via keyboard shortcut, shortcuts app, stream deck's app, automator, AppleScript, or terminal command - however I am by no means an expert in automator, Shortcuts, AppleScript, or terminal.
I tried "watch me do" in automator, and it'd work if I didn't hide my dock, but I do. :/
Asked by Dusey
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Sep 12, 2022, 09:54 PM
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