Possible to open several files with one click?

[adversecamber]

At the moment we're looking to move house, so I've got various bookmarks in Safari, several Numbers docs or projected mortgage payments, pages docs of appointments etc.

Is it possible to click something once that will then open a number of pre-determined apps and docs?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

If you're trying to have a bunch of applications run at startup, there's an easier way. Go into System Preferences, then Accounts, then Login Items. Click the little plus sign, and add each application you want to run when you log in.

 

[nick9191]

Highlight what you want, hit enter

 

[boast]

I don't know about clicking, but you can do it via terminal with bash aliases

you edit your profile

nano ~/.profile

and add something like this example. If I want the command 'openstuff' to open Safari and 7zx, I would put the following in .profile

alias openstuff='open /Applications/Safari.app && open /Applications/7zX.app'

(open means to open the app, lol, and the && is used to seperate commands)

then in terminal I just write, 'openstuff' and hit enter, and they both open up

 

[soberbrain]

Highlight what you want, hit enter

How about:

Make aliases of the files and put the aliases in 1 folder.

Then whenever you want to access all, just select all aliases and click return.

 

[boast]

How about:

Make aliases of the files and put the aliases in 1 folder.

Then whenever you want to access all, just select all aliases and click return.

thats a good idea too.

those would be symlinks. you can make them as so

ln -s source target

 

[wrldwzrd89]

thats a good idea too.

those would be symlinks. you can make them as so

ln -s source target

Symbolic links, though they function like aliases, are NOT the same as aliases.

 

[boast]

Symbolic links, though they function like aliases, are NOT the same as aliases.

oh. I was unaware of the differences in mac.