From: Edie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [G] Setting up a new mini
At 8:17 AM +1100 2/19/06, david_elmo wrote:
OK, but what about a little teensy weeny little change like moving
the Utilities folder to the top level making it just that much
easier to grab things. Will this upset the delicate and mysterious
workings of this X giant? I have done this just now, fed up of
having to go to applications and scrolling to bottom to find the
folder. Will more trouble be brewing for me from this one act
(apart from any incompetent use of the utilities). There are other
ways to skin this cat, I suppose as I type this, like an alias.
Actually, let me go back and make an alias and put this on the top
level till I am more sure of this matter. Hello! To move it back
it asks me for my password! Now an alias, lets me do this. Now i
move i alias to top level. Yes, that is allowed without password.
And now the finishing touch as is an old habit, I remove the "
alias" from the name for cosmetic reasons. You see, Bruce and G-
List, you are already saving me from danger, in the very act of
writing to you.
You have forgotten my question? Is it ok to move the real
Utilities folder to the top level.
David Elmo
David, if you move the folder, the system may not and upgrades
won't find stuff that you've put else where. I had put all my apps
in sub folders: Browsers, IM, photo stuff, etc. Apple OS updates
would create new applications where it thought they should go. I
fought that for a while, too.
Use the alias method (Bravo!) or drag any file to the Dock (right
side), the side bar (bottom half) or in the tools area of any
Finder Window and OS X Tiger will create an alias in any of those
places for easy access AND leave the folder where it was. They do
behave differently in the different places though. Shawn described
the Dock's handy function. Clicking on an alias in the side bar
takes you to that folder in the same window. Folders linked in the
tool bar open in a new window--at least that's the way they work
here. You can remove any of those aliases by Command-dragging them
off and they go in a little puff of smoke--cool. This is great for
current projects or folders you constantly use.
The method I like best is to use the "Go" drop down menu in the
finder. There Apple put access to some common places on the net and
also on your computer including the Utilities Folder. The short
cut, shift-command-u is noted there on the right. Once I learned
the short cuts they became available without fuss.
~Edie
I greatly appreciate your (and others) advice. And I am seeing it
best to fiddle as little with big folders as possible. But I am
constantly bemused by my having a user folder and in it is me! The
machine also seems to be an owner. I paid for this damned thing, not
the machine, I bought it! But it seems to have a higher status than
me, it rides supreme at super top level. I am a level down within one
of its folders. But, crazily, I can fiddle with it with an admin
password. So I am given at least the illusion of super boss, right?
I am seeing my physician about this mac OS X why should you all carry
this burden?
David Elmo
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