On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
"~" is UNIX shorthand for your user folder. Assuming your OS X username is "Andrew Stiller," it's probably called "astiller" and located at Macintosh HD/Users/astiller, and it should be marked with a home icon. Inside, there should be a folder called "Public" and inside *that* should be a folder called "Drop Box"
Yep, there it is, five layers down. How sensible. How useful.
I seem to recall that you had some pretty unorthodox ideas about where to store documents on your HD (storing all Finale documents inside the Finale application folder, for instance).
In Systems 6 (where I got on) thru 9 there was nothing either unorthodox or impermissible about this at all. This is just another example of OSX's reduced functionality compared to System 9.
I put up w. OSX because I have to, but I don't have to like it, or succumb to it. Maybe OS 12 will correct some of these imbecilities--for wh. corrections, of course, we'll have to pay.
You are just going to have to accept that you *cannot* do that in OS X.
And yet I have been, for two years, with inconvenience but w.o incident. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
