On Jan 24, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Anders Fager wrote:
I also want to put my jpgs where I want and do not feel like
arguing with i-this and i-that over it. How can this be done?
Put them there. Where do you want to put them? What 'argument' are
you getting?
A more detailed account of what it is you're trying to do will
help...
OK. Three thing for staters.
First of all I would like iPhoto to stay away from everything that
even smells like a jpg. And I want to tell the systmen to open all
jpgs using the "Preview" utility unless I drop them on the
Photoshop icon.
Select a jpeg file, and do "Get Info" Click the reveal arrow by 'Open
With' and select Preview. There's a button there that says "Change
all like this" (or something to that effect) press it. This should
take care of the issue.
You can also just delete iPhoto if you don't want to use it....go
into applications and drag it to the trash, be done with it.
Can i somehow expand the dock to have supfilders like you could do
with the old Apple menue?
Yes. Drop a folder onto the right-hand side of the vertical bar, and
you have spring-loaded navigable folders.
And: there is just one big folder in my system folder and thay one
is called "Library". I also have this other big folder next to it
that is also called "Library". They even seem to contain a lot of
similar folders. What is the story?
They contain a lot of similar folders, but the content will be
different.
This is a consequence of the multiuser nature of OS X. The one big
one, at the root level of your drive is the system Library folder
(there's also a Library folder in the System folder but in general,
the rule about the System folder in OS X is "Hand's off!").
Things that affect all users on a system go here: program plugins, a
few preferences, fonts*, etc. The folders in here, to some extent,
have the same functions as the old System folder folders /Extensions
and /Preferences. This is an imperfect analogy, but about as close as
I can get.
The system wide web documents directory is here, the user one is in
your Sites folder.
<http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/index.html> is in /Library/
WebServer/Documents
<http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/~johnson/index.html> is in my
user directory. /Users/johnson/Sites/
The Library folder in your user directory has your own preferences,
and you can install plugins and fonts for your own use (an no one
elses) in here. Also, if the user isn't an Administrative user, this
is where preference panes and many things like that get installed.
Again, they don't affect other users of the computer.
This is also where your bookmarks and mail is kept.
*Fonts are complicated, because there's many different places to put
them....
/Library/Fonts: fonts available to all users of the computer
/Users/<username>/Library/Fonts: fonts available only to that user
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts: Adobe's effort to just
plain screw everything up.
/System/Library/Fonts : Fonts the system depends upon. Some programs
won't run if the proper font isn't here. Like all things in /System
leave them the <bleep> alone.
OS X is NOT OS 9, not only is there no need to get into the system
and futz, doing so can really screw things up.
The best advice I can suggest for the recently migrated is hands off
until you learn the new organization, and resist the urge to 'fine
tune' things..it will be like a confident VW Bug home mechanic trying
to tune an old Ferrari with 6 two barrel carbs...You will soon be in
over your head and messing things up.
--
Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
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