Select multiple files?

Click the first one, hold shift while you move your mouse to click the 12th one

 

In list view, highlight the first item, hold shift and select the last item

 

you can do this in any view if you hold command and click instead of shift

doh.. read your post wrong nevermind i was answering a different question

 

cmd+a if it's all the files

 

select files that are not contiguous

How can I select several files in the folder if they are not contiguous? Let's say i want to select several, but not all files, that are not listed in a row? In Windows I use CTRL key. Any way to do this in Mac? I cannot always use the mouse, it's not fast and it's very inefficient: sometimes I happen to press mouse button a little too hard and then that file will open instead of getting selected, and the entire job gets stalled.

 

Shift +Option +Command