Bea writes, <Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum:( Dashboard was in the Dock and now it isn't, I do a find and it comes up, BUT it's not in my Applications folder. Dictionary is now staying in the dock BUT I didn't drag it from the applications folder! Weird!>
You know, there are a few apps I use a lot, which are usually in the Dock because now that I have OS X, I almost never turn my Mac off any more, but on the rare occasions I do turn it off, or I've just rebooted in OS X after having been up on 9, I have to go find them again in the Apple Menu and reopen them to get them back in the Dock. I know, I could move these apps to the Dock so they'd always be there, but I don't want to drag them out of my OS 9 folders. I hate "stuff all over the place" in my computer or to "discombobulate" by actually moving OS 9 apps to my OS X drive (or wasting space by putting copies of them on the OS X drive). I wish there was another way, like to put an alias of these apps in the Dock instead of the apps themselves. Another thing I think I like better about 9 is the Apple Menu management. As in, I wish I could manually select and clean out a few specific Recent Items manually in OS X, which I don't know how to do, other than Clear, which cleans out the whole thing, when all I want to remove is a few of these documents and apps. I keep my Recent Items pretty high (30) because I hate when I have to look at a whole bunch of documents, and a lower number, like 10, causes the ones I want to stay there, to go away because I keep looking at new things which displace earlier ones. In OS 9 this is not a problem, because when I look at "a ton of new stuff" (this is the kind of thing I only look at once: like ReadMes from zip files I download) -- or use an app I don't use too often or only once (like an installer), I just hold on to the mouse at the Recent Applications or Recent Documents submenus, I get a folder, and I can manually select all those aliases I don't need and Trash them, leaving only the apps and documents I want "permanently" easy access to. <That's what I use it for, but unlike sherlock it doesn't give a hierarchy of WHERE it's located which I find a nuisance.> Actually, I had to find some recent downloads last week, so I used Spotlight, and it did tell me where in the hierarchy they were.... <I gather then that Sims is a game. I only play fortythieves and that works in both OS 9+X.> Yes, The Sims is a game. A rather addictive one, might I add, and the only computer game I play at all. ;-) Since it's a CUSTOMIZABLE game, that's why I'm downloading like a fiend these days! I'm usually pretty good at organizing these downloads, but sometimes I get a little confused because I go on these sprees where I download like a maniac (minimum 50 new items), and then I have to process them all first, before I can even put in the appropriate game folders so they'll be recognized. As to fortythieves, I've never heard of it. ;-) ~Yersinia. ________ "If you think sex is a pain in the ass, you are doing it wrong." ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
