This Mac tip is provided by Mark Greentree and was originally posted on Mark’s blog – Everyday Mac Support. For more of Mark’s tips visit his site, follow him on Twitter, or browse his archive of posts here.
Duplicating files and folders can be an easy solution for anyone who prefers to work on a copy of a document versus the original document.
In order to duplicate a file or folder simply go to your finder and open a new finder window.
Then select a file or folder your would like to duplicate. Once selected you have two options. The first is to right click on your mouse which will bring up the popup menu you see below. Then simply click duplicate.
The second option once the file or folder is selected is to press Command-D on your keyboard as shown below and your file or folder will be duplicated.
You will notice when a file or folder has been duplicated that the duplicated version will have ‘copy’ at the end making it easily identifiable. This can be seen below.