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How can I access the folder that is used just before in "Files" using Backspace like which is done in Windows explorer??

Avinash Raj
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I don't know how to use Backspace, but there are a few Keyboard shortcuts:

Alt+Left - Move 'Back' through history of navigated folders

Alt+Right - Move 'Forward' through history of navigated folders

Alt+Up - Move 'Up' - navigate to parent directory

There are more listed here

You can change it to be the shortcut to navigate back, though it might be simpler to use Alt+Left.

First kill nautilus with:

nautilus -q

Note this will close any file manager windows, and probably anything it is doing

Open the text editor with the file by running this in terminal or command prompt:

gedit ~/.config/nautilus/accels

search for this line (Ctrl+F and then type actions/Up):

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Up" "<Alt>Up")

and replace it with: (gtk_accel_path "/ShellActions/Up" "BackSpace")

Save and exit, then close terminal, and open Files again, and it might work smiley

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Wilf
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You can either do this here:

1) Just add the accel key to the config file. I did in a terminal console:

echo '(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Up" "BackSpace")' >> ~/.config/nautilus/accels

Restart nautilus after killing it by executing

nautilus -q

Or

2) edit ~/.config/nautilus/accels

Press Ctrl+F and type Alt+Up to find the right line.

Remove the ; symbol in front of the line: (gtk_accel_path "/ShellActions/Up" "Up")

Change Up to BackSpace

Hope it helps. :-) enter image description here

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