You are correct, I misstated, because I never think about the sidebar,
which does not appear on my screen.
On 4/12/2018 4:29 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
This is actually not a valid statement. The drives and other external
media always show up in the Finder, it is simply the location or style
of "Showing up" that is handled by the Finder Preferences. By
default, these items show up in the Sidebar of any open Finder window
as opposed to appearing on the Desktop itself. This, therefore, keeps
the Desktop less cluttered from some people's point of view. Many of
us long time Mac users prefer the items to be on the Desktop itself,
but many other users, as well as a lot of sighted users prefer to just
access these items through the Sidebar. VO users can also access
these items via the Sidebar, but most of us find it easier to place
these sorts of items on our Desktop, either for convenience or due to
being accustomed to operating that way.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Apple Teacher
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Apr 12, 2018, at 13:58, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com
<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote:
Remember, drives don't show up in Finder by default. This is something
about which I have never fully comes to intellectual grips. If one
were to buy a Mac, bring it home, turn it on, and start using it,
drives appear in Finder; if one were to install the Mac operating
system from scratch, taking all the defaults with the exception of
File Vault and storing the Documents directory in the cloud, no drives
appear in Finder unless and until they are told to do so.
On 4/12/2018 3:08 PM, christopher hallsworth wrote:
Hi Andy let's start with the basics, in the Finder you should see any
external media by default, thumb drives included. Unlike Windows,
macOS automatically mounts these external disks and places them in
the Finder. Once you have located this, press command-o to open the
volume. Note I will not use CMD at this stage for simplicity's sake.
On 12 Apr 2018, at 10:48, 'andy' via MacVisionaries
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
Hi all.
In brief, I'm a very determined and apparently reluctant learning
of the Apple operating system.
I've been using windows since Dos 3.1 and like many people, I am
afraid of this new system.
I Purchased a 27 Imac and a Macbook pro about 2 years ago and have
hardly moved in my learning.
Despite buying a great book, titled, Janet Ingber - Everything You
Need to Know to Use the Mac , I cannot get the motivation to "Use
the mac"!
My fingers tremble at my Macbook and I'm so afraid of doing
something wrong, I'm paralysed.
So I'm thinking that I should try something really simple.
I'm addicted by the way to talking books, so lets look at that as
a method to break the ice.
I've placed the above book on a thumb drive but every time I plug
it into my Macbook, absolutely nothing happens, so I cannot access
this media.
On a Windows computer I'm asked "What do you want your computer to
do?".
So if anyone can tell me how to access a thumb drive and be able to
go through some of the easy chapters of this book then listen to
them, it may be enough to finally break my spirit and get me
started, hahaha.
Sorry guys for the long message but I'm sure you have all heard it
before.
Very best wishes.
Andy.
From Scotland with Love.
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