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    Hidden powers of the Opt key

    Feb 05, 2019 2 minutes
    ALAN STONEBRIDGE

    (Opt) lives up to its name, quite literally being your key to opening up an entire world of shortcuts and alternative behaviors. You might have a sense of this already from how often we mention it in troubleshooting advice; the first step in solving some software problems is to hold the key to reveal a link to your user account’s Library folder (where you can carry out certain maintenance tasks)

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