I would not worry much about multiple desktops it might actually make your system faster, since applications that are not in your current desktop are not being displayed and so they are more likely to have AppNap applied to them. AppNap is just what it sounds like, if a GUI application is not visible, then MacOS will put to sleep the screen updates that that application is doing. There are a couple ways to hide an application
1. Have it on its own desktop. 2. Hide it with the command-H command before switching to another application. In terms of Desktop management this is handled by Mission Control which is an App in the Applications folder but also can have keyboard shortcuts assigned to it in the keyboard preference pane. I saw how to add a desktop, but not how to remove one when I looked the mission control application. > On Best wishes, Jonathan > Mar 4, 2015, at 20:24, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > > I forgot to say that I also ended up with 16 desktops which we first thought > was my problem. How can I make sure I only have one desktop since I don’t > need numerous ones? > > Gigi again > >> On Mar 4, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi guys >> Unexpectedly, my computer ended up in the Apple intensive care unit because, >> we think, of my iCloud drive. Finder totally crashed, and they said I had a >> rolling ball or something like that across the screen. VoiceOver was >> running, but we couldn’t get to anything. I was in the Apple store for >> something else. I was getting a second Time Machine drive. The person that >> was helping me asked to see the Braille display since he had never seen one. >> I had brought it for another reason. Thinking no trouble was going to >> happen, I opened the Mac and turned on the Braille display. Immediate >> crisis. >> >> I had put several files on my iDrive yesterday. Now that I have a second >> Time Machine drive, I am not going to put these files on my iDrive. However, >> the Genius Bar person that ended up helping us eventually had to kill off my >> iDrive, at which point my computer came back just fine. So somehow I broke >> it. >> >> So, here’s my question, which I know took me a while to get to it. If I sign >> onto icloud.com <http://icloud.com/> how can I delete those folders I no >> longer want there so that I can go back into Preferences and put back the >> iDrive, minus those files I shouldn’t have put on there in the first place. >> When I signed on there in Safari, I saw the folders and VoiceOver called >> them a group. Maybe I missed something, but I didn’t find a delete option on >> there, but I sure there is one. >> >> thanks. >> >> Gigi, who had a bad computer day, probably her own fault. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
