Hi again Kim. the thing I had the most trouble with was folder organization. You wouldn't think so since the Apple 2E was my first computer. However, it took me a while to finally get it in my brain where things were on my Mac.
On the Mac, I have been column view instead of list view. In Windows I used list view. This means that in column view, say, the name of your folder is usually on the left and then the files under it would be accessed by pressing the right arrow key. For myself, and I think different people do different things here, I put the folders I wantyed to work with on the desktop. If you want to change to column view and try it, press VO (you know that's control option) and then press m. Right arrow over to view and down until you find column view. You should be able to press enter on that. Just like in Windows, you have some other choices of how you want things viewed. I have a reason to have things set up so that I see the thing I did last, but you can decide what of those options suit you. Hope all this helps. Regards, Gigi On Jan 15, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Kim Ellsworth wrote: > Hi Gigi, > > Thanks so much for your reply. I'm glad it isn't just me that is having > problems with the drag and drop. I only made it work a couple of times; but, > when I couldn't make it consistently work, I was disappointed. > > I'll do the copy and move commands you suggested in your post. I do have > some folder organization to take care of as well. > > Kind Regards, > Kim Ellsworth > On Jan 15, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> Hi Kim. >> I saw you got an answer to your question, but I would like to add something. >> One of the frustrating things about the drag and drop feature is that the >> reason it doesn't work reliably is that things go off the screen and we >> don't know about it. I finally just started using the thing Ray told you to >> do. >> >> I don't remember if he told about the move command, which I find works >> better than the drag and drop. After you have done control c for copy, if >> you to move things like files instead of just copy them, you can press >> option, command, v for moving it. I have found that sometimes you have to >> interact with the browser or open a folder you want to move to. Therefore, I >> have started checking to make sure things got moved to where I thought they >> were supposed to go. >> >> Regards, >> Gigi >> >> On Jan 15, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Kim Ellsworth wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am using a MacBook Air running Lion. My husband gave it to me for >>> Christmas; and, I love it. I've been reading Help tutorials and I often >>> refer to the keyboard help as well. Thus, hopefully I won't need to ask a >>> lot of basic questions that have already been asked before. LOL >>> >>> There is, however, an action that I am unable to make work for me. I'm >>> sure there is an easy way to accomplish what I want; but, I'm just missing >>> something. Using my address book, I've entered in all of my contacts. >>> Because I have this need to always keep everything categorized, I've >>> created several groups and hope to be able to organize my contacts into >>> them. I tried using the drag and drop commands; however, I get the message >>> that the item I marked for dragging is no longer visible. Thus, in short, >>> how do I drag my contacts from the "all contacts" area over into the >>> various groups I've created? >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated. Have a great day all. >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> Kim Ellsworth >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
