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| Thread ID: 75017 | 2006-12-13 22:39:00 | how find HD space in Mac OS X | mark c (247) | Press F1 |
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| 506481 | 2006-12-14 19:35:00 | Why do macs seem to make it so goddamm obscure , well, compared to the much maligned Windows?:D It just takes a little while to adapt to the way Macs do things compared with Windows (I have the same problem with Windows - it took me about 25 minutes once to work out how to turn font smoothing on, only to discover it doesn't do it very well at all and it probably wasn't worth the effort). :p Generally if you think to yourself, what is the most obvious way to accomplish a task, it is generally how you do it. It makes things simpler if you take a quick look through the Finder menus, System Preferences and the Utilities folder (in your Applications folder) so you can get an idea where everything is. :) | maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 506482 | 2006-12-14 23:43:00 | Why do macs seem to make it so goddamm obscure , well, compared to the much maligned Windows? I would like to point out that by default, the hard drive icon is shown on the desktop, and it appears that your difficulties with locating it were due to someone having customised the system's behaviour. I'm sure you'd have just as hard a time on Windows if you'd hidden the hard drive icon there too. |
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| 506483 | 2006-12-15 08:12:00 | Yes fair enough Nermal, it is a hand-me-down re-configured by the the donor (friend's son) and I think he may have intended to make it "user friendly:" by stripping all the tech stuff off the desktop and just leaving masses of entertainment-style icons on the taskbar (if it's called that), music, movies etc,. And thanks maccrazy I take your point but I was busy at the time and was rushing from one thing to another and then back to the mac, would've really like more relaxed time to have a look around. Thanks for all the help, ............m |
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| 506484 | 2006-12-15 20:35:00 | Thanks very much for your helpful info (from a "raw rookie" on Mac iBooks.) Now I know that out of a capacity of 37+ GB - 20 ha been already 'consumed" and I have 17'11 GB left! I am using Mark C's account - thanks to his help! Thanks again! Glynn A. |
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