Thank you, Ken!! Wildly helpful--I now feel much better having discovered that I'm not seeing it because it's not here, not because I'm blind. :) I actually do not have a silver drive icon on my desktop. There was nothing on my desktop when I set it up. Now what? Where else can I find it?
On Jan 4, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Ken Springer wrote: > On 1/3/12 9:17 PM, Amy Mandaean wrote: >> Thanks for the help, Ken... but I still got nothing. :( >> >> Using the Finder, I found "System Preferences" and "System Information," but >> no folder > > just called "System," and nothing with my computer's name on it. Also no > > Library folder. >> >> Am I completely Mac illiterate?? > > No worse than I was when I bought mine. I'd spent 25 years using computer > interfaces that are not like the Mac, and I've had, and still have after 2 > years, problems finding things on the Mac. At this time, that's my fault, > not Apple's. But, I'll never go back. :-) > > I've taken some screenshots to help with this message, at least hopefully > help. :-) > : http://db.tt/0sJNMyDU > > I took a screenshot of a part of my desktop This shows you the disk drives > recognized by my Mac. Consider these drives to be analogous to what you > would see if you opened My Computer, and the Hard Disk area of the display, > assuming you are using the thumbnails display in the My Computer window. > (2nd screenshot in the above link). > > My internal hard drive has been partitioned into 3 drives, represented by 3 > silver drive icons labeled System, Data, and testing. The other 4 drives are > external drives, and have no bearing on the discussion. I suspect you will > have just one silver drive, and it may or may not be named system. > > That one lone drive is the one you want. Double click on it. A finder > window should open, and (hopefully) you'll see a file list similar to the > third screenshot. > > If Lion is the same as Snow Leopard, there will be a Users folder. This is > the folder that I'm referring to in step 2 of my previous post. > > Does this help you follow my steps? > > If you've got a Mac question that is off topic for your problem, feel free to > email and ask using the address in this message. > > > -- > Ken > > Mac OS X 10.6.8 > Firefox 9.0.1 > Thunderbird 9.0.1 > LibreOffice 3.4.4 > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
