Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition Author : David Pogue Publisher : O'Reilly Pub Date : October 2002 ISBN : 0-596-00450-8 Table of Contents The Missing Credits About the Author About the Creative Team Acknowledgments The Missing Manual Series Introduction What Mac OS X 10.2 Gives You What Mac OS X Takes Away Three OSes in One About this Book About the Outline About MissingManuals.com The Very Basics Part I: The Mac OS X Desktop Chapter 1. Folders and Windows 1.1 Getting into Mac OS X 1.1.1 Logging In 1.1.2 The Elements of the Mac OS X Desktop 1.1.2.1 Disk icons 1.1.2.2 The Dock 1.1.2.3 The Apple menu 1.1.2.4 The menu bar 1.2 Windows and How to Work Them 1.2.1 Title Bar 1.2.2 Close Button 1.2.3 Minimize Button 1.2.4 Zoom Button 1.2.5 The Folder Proxy Icon 1.2.6 The Finder Toolbar 1.2.7 "Old Finder Mode" (Toolbar Disclosure) Button 1.2.8 Scroll Bars 1.2.9 Resize Box 1.2.10 Status Bar 1.3 The Three Window Views 1.4 Icon View 1.4.1 Icon View Options 1.4.1.1 Choosing icon sizes 1.4.1.2 Text size 1.4.1.3 Windows XP-style labeling 1.4.1.4 "Show item info" 1.4.1.5 "Show icon preview" 1.4.1.6 Window backgrounds 1.4.2 Keeping Icons Neat and Sorted 1.5 List View 1.5.1 Sorting the List 1.5.2 Flippy Triangles 1.5.3 Which Columns Appear 1.5.4 Other View Options 1.5.5 Rearranging Columns 1.5.6 Adjusting Column Widths 1.6 Column View 1.6.1 Column View by Keyboard 1.6.2 Manipulating the Columns 1.6.3 View Options 1.7 Logging Out, Shutting Down 1.7.1 Sleep Mode 1.7.2 Restart 1.7.3 Shut Down 1.7.4 Log Out 1.8 Getting Help in Mac OS X Chapter 2. Organizing Your Stuff 2.1 The Mac OS X Folder Structure 2.1.1 Your Home Folder 2.1.2 What's in Your Hard Drive Window 2.1.3 What's in Your Home Folder 2.2 Icon Names 2.3 Selecting Icons 2.4 Moving and Copying Icons 2.4.1 Copying by Dragging 2.4.2 Copying by Using Copy and Paste 2.4.3 Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders 2.4.4 Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work 2.5 Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once 2.5.1 What's Good about Aliases 2.5.2 Broken Aliases 2.6 Favorites 2.7 The Trash 2.7.1 Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash 2.7.2 Emptying the Trash 2.7.3 Locked Files: The Next Generation 2.8 Get Info 2.8.1 Uni-window vs. Multi-window 2.8.2 The Get Info Panels 2.9 Finding Files 1: The Search Bar 2.9.1 What to Do With Search Results 2.9.1.1 Find out where something is 2.9.1.2 Open the file (or open one of the folders it's in) 2.9.1.3 Move or delete the file 2.9.1.4 Rename the file 2.9.1.5 File-menu commands 2.9.1.6 Adjust the list 2.9.1.7 Copy a file 2.9.1.8 Make an alias 2.9.1.9 Start over 2.9.1.10 Give up 2.10 Finding Files 2: The Find Program 2.10.1 Where to Look 2.10.2 What to Look For 2.10.2.1 File name 2.10.2.2 Content 2.10.2.3 Date created, date modified 2.10.2.4 Kind 2.10.2.5 Size 2.10.2.6 Extension 2.10.2.7 Visibility 2.10.3 Duplicating Criteria Rows 2.10.4 Step 3: Find the Files, and Use Them Chapter 3. Dock, Desktop, and Toolbar 3.1 The Dock 3.2 Setting Up the Dock 3.2.1 Organizing and Removing Dock Icons 3.2.2 Three Ways to Get the Dock out of Your Hair 3.2.2.1 Auto-hiding the Dock 3.2.2.2 Shrinking and enlarging the Dock 3.2.2.3 Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen 3.3 Using the Dock 3.3.1 Switch Applications 3.3.2 Operate the Dock by Keyboard Control 3.3.3 Use Secret Menus 3.3.4 Great Things to Put on Your Dock 3.4 The Finder Toolbar 3.4.1 Removing or Shrinking the Toolbar 3.4.2 Adding Your Own Icons to the Toolbar 3.4.2.1 Apple's toolbar-icon collection 3.4.2.2 Adding your own stuff 3.4.3 Rearranging Toolbar Icons 3.4.4 Removing Toolbar Icons 3.5 Designing Your Desktop 3.5.1 System Preferences 3.5.2 Graphic Designers' Corner: The Gray Look 3.5.3 Desktop Sounds 3.6 Menulets: The Missing Manual Part II: Applications in Mac OS X Chapter 4. Programs and Documents 4.1 Launching Mac OS X Programs 4.1.1 The Application Menu 4.1.2 Quitting Programs 4.1.3 Force Quitting Programs 4.2 Juggling Programs with the Dock 4.2.1 Switching Programs 4.2.2 The New, Improved "Command-Tab" 4.2.3 Hiding Programs 4.2.4 Hiding All Other Programs 4.2.5 The Bring-Forward, Hide-All-Others Trick 4.2.6 Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows 4.2.7 Window Layering 4.2.8 Using the Dock for Drag-and-Drop 4.3 How Documents Know Their Parents 4.3.1 Type and Creator Codes 4.3.2 File Name Extensions 4.3.3 Hiding and Showing File Name Extensions 4.3.4 Reassigning Documents to Programs 4.3.4.1 Reassigning a certain document just once 4.3.4.2 Reassigning a certain document permanently 4.3.4.3 Reassigning all documents of this type 4.4 Controlling Menus from the Keyboard 4.4.1 What You Can Do with Keyboard Control 4.4.2 Turning on Full Keyboard Access 4.5 The Save and Open Dialog Boxes 4.5.1 Sheets 4.5.2 Simplified Navigation 4.5.3 Column-View Navigation 4.5.4 Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location 4.5.5 The File Format Pop-up Menu 4.5.6 The Open File Dialog Box 4.6 Three Kinds of Programs: Cocoa, Carbon, Classic 4.7 The Cocoa Difference 4.7.1 The Fonts Panel 4.7.2 Title Bar Tricks 4.7.3 Services 4.7.3.1 Finder 4.7.3.2 Grab 4.7.3.3 Mail 4.7.3.4 Make New Sticky Note 4.7.3.5 Speech 4.7.3.6 Summarize 4.7.3.7 TextEdit 4.7.4 Toolbar Tricks 4.7.5 Secret Keyboard Shortcuts 4.7.6 Background Window Control 4.8 Installing Mac OS X Programs 4.8.1 .sit, .tar, and .gz 4.8.2 Disk Images (.dmg files) 4.8.3 Cleaning Up after Decompression 4.8.4 Performing the Installation 4.8.5 Uninstalling Software Chapter 5. Back to Mac OS 9 5.1 Two Roads to Mac OS 9 5.2 Classic: Mac OS 9 on Mac OS X 5.2.1 How to Start Classic 5.2.1.1 Double-click a Mac OS 9 program 5.2.1.2 Launch it manually 5.2.1.3 Start up Classic automatically 5.2.2 What to Expect from Classic 5.2.3 Getting Out of Classic 5.2.4 Specifying a Classic System Folder 5.2.5 Controlling Classic Startup 5.2.5.1 Summoning Extensions Manager 5.2.5.2 Extensions and control panels to turn off 5.2.5.3 Extensions to leave on 5.2.5.4 "Holding down" keys during startup 5.3 Restarting in Mac OS 9 5.3.1 Dual Booting the Long Way 5.3.1.1 Switching from X to 9 5.3.1.2 Switching from 9 to X: The Long Way 5.4 Four Tricks for Faster Switching 5.4.1 The X Key Trick (From 9 to X) 5.4.2 The D Key Trick (From X to 9) 5.4.3 The AppleScript Trick 5.4.4 The Option Key Trick 5.4.5 Separate System Folders for Classic and Rebooting 5.4.5.1 Maintaining a single Mac OS 9 System Folder 5.4.5.2 Maintaining two different Mac OS 9 System Folders Chapter 6. Moving Data 6.1 Moving Data Between Documents 6.1.1 Cut, Copy, and Paste 6.1.2 Drag-and-Drop 6.1.2.1 When to use drag-and-drop 6.1.2.2 Using drag-and-drop to the desktop 6.1.3 Export/Import 6.2 Exchanging Data with Other Macs 6.2.1 By Network 6.2.2 By CD or DVD 6.2.3 FireWire Disk Mode 6.2.4 Via the iPod 6.2.5 Bluetooth 6.3 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs 6.3.1 Preparing the Document for Transfer 6.3.1.1 Is the document in a file format Windows understands? 6.3.1.2 Does the file have the correct three-letter file name suffix? 6.3.2 By Disk 6.3.2.1 How the Mac reads Windows disks 6.3.2.2 Creating a Windows disk on the Mac 6.3.3 By Network 6.3.4 Via the Internet 6.3.5 By Email Attachment 6.3.5.1 File compression and encoding 6.3.5.2 Problems receiving Windows files Chapter 7.