D. W. Fenton wrote: >>> Surely there's a system setting somewhere that allows you to >>> alter the default application and document settings? In >>> Windows there are registry settings for all the appropriate >>> system-defined folders and if you change the setting in the >>> registry, all applications will then honor that choice. That's >>> the way you get rid of C:\My Documents, if you don't like that >>> (as I don't; what was wrong with "Documents" as a folder >>> name:?), or how you move your default program installation >>> folder to a different volume.
J. Gebauer: >> A Mac works a little different from a PC. And I hesitate to go >> on from here... DWF: > Well, of *course* I know that Macs are different. > But why wouldn't this be a user-changable setting? > I didn't mean to suggest that there was a system registry on > the Mac, only that there must of necessity to be a structure in > the Mac OS similar in function to the system registry (a place > for storing system settings) and, presumable, a UI somewhere > for modifying those settings. You're still thinking in Bill's terms about what a "system" is. For MacOS < X the whole metaphor is different than Unix and M$. It's possible to have several System Folders on the same disk partition and "bless" one of them to be the active one on re-start. Consequently, paths are relative to the current system and not as you describe above: "C:\My Documents" and a (logically) single system registry. This implies that whatever Control Panel one activates to change a certain system default setting doesn't change the settings of the system folder it currently "belongs" to. Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
