The Go menu is clearly a fantastic and nearly instant way to navigate all over OS X, but what if you don’t like the pre-created shortcuts? Changing Finder Go Menu Shortcuts You can add or remove favorite servers, browse, and connect to recent servers. Just use the combination “Command + K” to open the Connect to Server dialog.

If you have other computers on your network with which you share files, particularly Windows or Linux boxes, then this feature will be useful. The last item on the Go menu we want to briefly point out is the “Connect to Server…” option. Instead of going there click by click, you can just use the “Go to Folder” option. This can be very helpful when following how-to’s, which tell you to navigate to x or y location.

Now you can type or paste in your destination, click “Go,”and you’re instantly whisked there. Of course, using the Finder to drill down into a folder and its subfolder is one way to go about it, but why step when you can leap? Note the “Go to Folder…” option, which can be executed using “Shift + Command + G”. File Explorer on Windows with its hierarchal folder view, makes it easy to go to any location with a few clicks. This is pretty useful to know because there’s no folder tree in the Sidebar ( though you can add folder locations to it) such as we see here in Windows File Explorer. So if you want to go back use “Command + ”, and to go to the enclosing folder use “Command + up arrow.”

Lastly, you can go back, forward, and up if you’re using the mouse, or with shortcuts. Similarly, if you hold “Command + Shift” you get a new option to “Select Start Disk on Desktop.”

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