Getting my brain to switch from automatically double licking to right clicking probably will require new software in my head. However I am going to try and force it to switch.
Anne > On Sep 8, 2016, at 9:44 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From my point of view I can see no improvement in any of the old iWork >> modules: Pages, Numbers (haven’t tried Keynote yet and am afraid of what I >> will find). Also Photos is no improvement over iPhoto (IMHO). Everything >> requires one or more extra steps to preform a function. >> In Pages I set up a WP template but my template never open the way I had >> saved it as a template. > > Apple lobotomized iWorks a few years ago when they came out with the iOS > versions. They went for feature parity between OS X and iOS. They’ve very > slowly been adding back features as the iOS versions are improved. We just > have to face it, Apple doesn’t care much about the Mac any more because the > real money is with iOS. For more proof of this, look at how the iOS stuff is > updated every Fall while the MacBooks, server and mini are ignored. (I do > have hope for a new MacBook in October.) > >> I even had to spend a bit of time figuring out how to mark a mail message >> “not junk” > > Yeah, MacOS mail has lots of problems and it also is not getting updated very > quickly for the same reason as above. > >> Is there some way to deactivate these new app so that when I double click on >> a file it will open in the older version (of Pages, Numbers, etc. I’m afraid >> to remove the new versions from my computer because I’m not sure what files >> I have that will only work with the new version. I got carried away when I >> first upgraded and didn’t really check out the newer stuff before using. > > You can edit the file com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist to do this. My > solution was to get out of the habit of double-clicking. I right-click or > control-click instead to choose the app I want. > >> I think I’m looking for a safe place on my computer where I can hide stuff >> from the OP. Does such a place exist? If I move he new Pages out g the >> Application folder will if still “take over” or will it just go >> dormant/hibernate until I call it up? > > This probably won’t work most of the time because the choice of programs to > launch is done in the bowels of the machine. It consults the launch services > database. Thanks to Spotlight, it will eventually find you. > > L^2 > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
