How to select a range of items on OSX

while pressing "Command" key, select the items.

 

Click the first item, hold Shift, click the last item, release Shift. This will select the first item, the last item, and all items in between.

Click the first item, hold Command, click other items, release Command. This will select only the items you've clicked and not all the items in between. You can hold Command and click on a selected item to deselect it without deselecting the other selected items.

 

I can't believe there isn't a way to select a range of icons in Finder. Sometimes I need to see the icon to make the right selection.

 

Click and drag one of them transparent boxy things over the files. If you understand what I mean by that.

 

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Selecting a range

Hi, I'm new to Mac and needed this question answered also. I kind of figured it out by mistake. I had a bunch of photo files just in an ordinary folder, I changed the view from tiles to a list view. There's a button up the top. Then I simply clicked and held the mouse button down and dragged down to the range I wanted selected and it worked. I tried the square over the tiles thing but I had one file in that range that I didn't want selected. The list made it a whole lot easier.