How to Select Multiple Files on Mac

Need to move a lot of files to another folder or an external drive? Or get rid of a lot of files at once? Well, instead of transferring or deleting files one by one, you can select multiple files at once on your Mac using the trackpad, mouse, or keyboard and then transfer, share, or delete them all at once. You can quickly learn how to select multiple files on a Mac. There are many ways to pick more than one file at once so that you can quickly copy, move, or delete them. This is how!

How to Select Multiple Files on Mac

Using the Mouse or Trackpad

1. Open the folder that contains the files you want to pick.

2. Click and hold down the mouse button as you move the cursor over the files you want to choose. When you drag the pointer over files or put them in the selection box for the overlay, these files will be chosen.

3. Right-click on any of the chosen files to move, share, copy, or delete them all at once.

Selecting multiple files displayed in a list

You can use this method if you have a folder whose contents are shown in a list view. Click on the file or item you want to start choosing from on the list form.

Then, hold down the "Shift" key and click on the last item in the list to finish the selection. All of the files between the first and last ones will be chosen.

Related: How to right click on a Mac.

Selecting multiple files one at a time in a folder

If you want to choose only some of the files in a folder, hold down the "Command" key and click on the files you want to choose.

You can use a selection tool to pick most of the files in a place where there are a lot of them. First, press Command+A to choose all files. Then, use Command + Click to deselect the few files you don't want to be selected.

Now that you know how to choose several files at once on a Mac. That's simple. If you can't choose multiple files at once, just leave a comment below and we'll help you figure out what's wrong.