You are so enlightening, all of you. While i have done and am doing all of these actions, mostly by intuition, it is good to get some guru - explanations. Just you believe me, as soon as that alias question came up, I tried it all out again, the duplicating which leaves a copy underneath the original with "copy" behind it, -copied to the clipboard ( i have a number of non-virtual clipboards still around - any need?), pasted it various times, filed it, opened it , then i put an alias on my powerbook while sharing and then shut the main computer down , so that I would be sure it would tell me the original could not be found, which it did. And then I wrote my little note to you, so I would hear it scientifically or technically explained. ---And this word clipboard -a piece of RAM -------piece --even that word implies weight where there is none, at least not measurable.- Ward said "portion" which is less weighty unless you think of icecream portions- anyway, this having to deal with these microscopic units, utilities that are for all I know mathematical thought processes , clicks that bring items , facts and fancy from around the globe unto the desktop ? ( another of those expressions of a weighty substance) - isn't it all absolutely fabulous? Harry Potter's wand cannot even compare. I doubt it could drag and drop - There are, though, those frustrations when the toolkit without tools as we know them and the macjanitor without a bucket aren't helpful and you would rather use a real hammer- I shall remember your "stay cool, Marta", John ,and will apply it also to the emotional heat that arises in the wrestling match when the computer turns into a beast. --- And just at my composing, there enters Schoun with his contribution. -Schoun, I shall use part of Sunday's time allotted for meditation to create aliases from aliases and see how far I can get. Marta On Aug 13, 2005, at 21:08, Profile wrote:
> Marta, > > To duplicate a file, the shortcut is the Apple key and the "D" letter, > the duplicate is placed below the original with the word "copy" at the > end. It would work as the original, and you could put it on another > computer as long as that computer had the same program to run > it......or, you could just store it on the other computer. > > When you make a copy it does go to the clipboard and will stay there > until you replace it with something else. > > Stay cool Marta! > > John R. > > > On Aug 13, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> While we are on this subject. Now, if I do make a "duplicate" rather >> than an "Alias", it would work as an original, would it not, and I >> could put it on a different computer or hard drive. Yes? -- And then >> I have a different question : When I copy something, where is it >> kept until I finally paste it? On the clipboard? > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
