I just finally found what happened to the window I get when double clicking on my disc icon: somehow the sidebar had got turned off. I just had to turn it on again, under the view menu in the finder.
A silly problem, that had no sensible cause, and which I've just fixed. Not having seen it before, I was unfamiliar with this, and maybe other smugglers are, also. So Sam was right, it was a normal disc: but the sidebar had vanished. Ranulph On 9 Dec 2012, at 14:50, Ranulph Glanville wrote: > Thanks for the response. This is odd. I have never seen this before: in > importing material from old computers it has remained on the top level of the > disc, never hidden behind the user. Nor did I move anything to do this. So > I'm surprised, but now I've found my way around, I'm ok! It doesn't seem I've > lost data in this move, which has also been a merger. > > Thanks for the advice, > > Ranulph > > > > > > > On 8 Dec 2012, at 10:43, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > >> Hi Ranulph >> >> not really sure what you mean, when you double click on the hard drive icon >> on your desktop, that's what you should see, a folder listing of the disk >> you're looking at. Do you mean you want to see it in list view so you can >> unfold each folder to view the contents? That's in the view menu > view as >> list. >> >> From the screenshot you provided, just click on Users > ranulphglanville > >> Documents and it'll take you to your documents folder. To go there directly, >> just go to the Go menu > Documents (or push cmd + shift + O). >> >> The screenshot looks to me like a normal top level of an OS X hard drive, >> not sure what the problem is! >> >> Regards >> >> Sam >> MacAmbulance >> Providing affordable Apple & PC services >> >> Sam Mullen >> 07747 778022 >> http://www.macambulance.co.uk >> [email protected] >> >> >> On 8 Dec 2012, at 15:22, Ranulph Glanville <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> When I open my disc icon on the desktop, what I get is this: >>> >>> <Screen Shot 2012-12-08 at 10.16.16.png> >>> >>> That's all. But there are many folders, and I get them if I open the disc >>> via, for instance, the documents alias in the dock. >>> >>> Still, I would like to be able to click on the disc and get a window with >>> the contents. Can anyone help? >>> >>> I think this happened when I connected to a projector system, which really >>> messed up my desktop. Otherwise, nothing has been connected to the machine. >>> >>> Thank you for any help. >>> >>> Ranulph >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
