Keyboard – How to Quickly Focus on Dialog Buttons in Finder

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In macOS dialog menus, two buttons are usually already in focus: one will probably be encircled in blue and is invoked by hitting Space, the other will be filled in blue and can be invoked by pressing ↵.

Sometimes, there's only one button in focus (like in the following image) or there are simply more buttons than the two already in (either kind of) focus.

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In either of those cases, is there any way to quickly set focus on the unfocused buttons?

P. S. – I was considering settings this:
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To All controls, but that's too much of compromise in dialogs where I actually need quickly to move between boxes and modify their contents.

Thanks!

Best Answer

There is a set of default keyboard shortcuts that should serve the need of interacting with the default file save sheets:

  • Press Enter key to Save.
  • Press esc to Cancel.
  • Press Command + Backspace key combination to Delete or Delete Copy, Don't Save, etc.