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Apple + Shift + N

or right click and select "new folder"

or if you don't have a two button mouse, control click = right click.

And if you really are autistic or digitaly chalanged by other means, you can go to /system preferences/universal access/ and there you can select "sticky keys" which will help you.

thanks guys...lol. why the hell is the up arrow, SHIFT? bleh. anywhoo. gracias

If you mean: why is an arrow pointing up a sysbol for the shift key?, it goes back to the days of typewriters, especially the manual variety. I know I am dating myself here and possibly a number of you have no idea of what I am talking about.

The shift key on a manual typewriter operated by physically lifting the carriage up, so that a different portion of the key struck the paper, thus producing the capitol letters and symbols on the upper parts of the keys. Some electric typewriters operated in this manner too. However, the IBM typewriter had a ball with the different characters distributed all over it. A shift-key combination merely dirrected the ball to pivot to the appropriate character. Some other electric typewriters used a daisy wheel in a similar manner.

BTW, the symbol that looks sort of like this:
_ _
\_

is for the option key.

Why do they use the up arrow instead of typing out the word shift? I see here on my Win NT work machine they type the words Ctrl and Shift. Ya, I know it only takes a freakin second to learn that up arrow means shift but it takes time to find that out. It's not in the instruction manual so where are you supposed to learn it?

The shift key on a manual typewriter operated by physically lifting the carriage up, so that a different portion of the key struck the paper, thus producing the capitol letters and symbols on the upper parts of the keys.

Actually, if I recall, pressing the shift key actually lowered the carriage so that you were using the top of the key instead of the bottom. My guess is that the up-arrow referred to the fact that you were using the top part of the key.

So there are at least two geezers on this board; three including me. I remember using clay tablets and chisels!

Why do they use the up arrow instead of typing out the word shift? I see here on my Win NT work machine they type the words Ctrl and Shift. Ya, I know it only takes a freakin second to learn that up arrow means shift but it takes time to find that out. It's not in the instruction manual so where are you supposed to learn it?

Yeah. And if they spelled out the word "like in Windows" you'd be crabbing that Apple users are so dumb they have to spell out the function for us.

Where's the any key?

haha. glad to see we have a simpsons fan here

Hmm, I don't remember much about typewriters, but hey I'm a *Geezer* also.. hehe

Where's the beef ?.


Oops wrong subject. hehe

Why do they use the up arrow instead of typing out the word shift? I see here on my Win NT work machine they type the words Ctrl and Shift. Ya, I know it only takes a freakin second to learn that up arrow means shift but it takes time to find that out. It's not in the instruction manual so where are you supposed to learn it?

Yeah. And if they spelled out the word "like in Windows" you'd be crabbing that Apple users are so dumb they have to spell out the function for us.

Well you can't satisfy everyone all the time. I just think it would be easier if it was written out since I went through a time when I used the mouse when I could have used the shift key. Would have saved me some time. Also my wife's Vaio actually labels the port in English rather than using hiroglyphics like a radioactive symbol for a firewire port.

Hey, my eight year old son is autistic and he knows how to make a new folder in OS X.  (Just wanted to make you feel better!) :-)