Any Mac users out there?

[Sugar Land]

I have a few questions for someone that knows Mac kind of well. I just seems like moving things around is harder than one would think.

 

[filmtex]

Been a Mac user for years and years. Ask away...

 

[Brains]

Yep, made the switch myself back in '08, develop on 'em all day every day. What'cha need help with?

 

[Sugar Land]

Thanks for the help filmtex. This is going to take a while I believe.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Mac sitting on my desk since '85

 

[Tejano Scott]

I have a ton of Mac products, but probably the last guy you wanna ask.

 

[Sugar Land]

Seems like they made stuff backassward just because...

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Do you have an issue with your mac?

 

[Sugar Land]

filmtex got me through this time but I am sure there will be more. File handling is very odd. Does it ever really get rid of files?

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Not sure what you mean about file handling being odd. It uses a Hierarchical File System (HFS) Plus to manage its files and has since the late 90's, is your system older than that?

While is does get rid of files by replacing them or overwriting, that is limited to generally system upgrades. Most files you will need to trash them yourself when you no longer need them.

 

[Sugar Land]

I have been using PC like forever and Mac seems to hide jpg files because I can't find them in Finder. I is prolly ok just going to take some time I guess.

 

[2sam22]

Stay with the Mac, you'll soon love it. I switched over in 08. Macbook still runs like a top, no issues. We have 3 Macs in the family now. Zero PCs. Easy.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

I have been using PC like forever and Mac seems to hide jpg files because I can't find them in Finder. I is prolly ok just going to take some time I guess.

Not sure how you got them but if you downloaded them they were auto put in the downloads folder, or you can change your Prefs like I did and all my downloads go into a folder on the desktop.

 

[2sam22]

You can adjust where and what Finder looks for, but you probably already knew that.

 

[Sugar Land]

I trashed a bunch of photos in iPhoto and emptied trash and they still show up on my back ground and screen saver.

 

[Green Eye Tactical]

You emptied the trash in iPhoto itself, not in your finder right?


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

 

[filmtex]

I trashed a bunch of photos in iPhoto and emptied trash and they still show up on my back ground and screen saver.

Open System Preferences>Desktop & Screen Saver and change the photos. Prefs is keeping a copy FROM iPhoto and wasn't trashed when you trashed the iPhoto ones. I believe. Give that a try...

 

[Brains]

Heh you want to talk about hiding files, and point a finger at the Mac? The filesystem layout (and filesystem itself) is worlds better on a Mac than on Windows. WinSxS, need I say more? lol

FWIW, when you delete the files from iPhoto, they indeed are gone despite the image still showing as your background. Pretty simple to verify - right click the desktop, select "Change Desktop Background", and tell me what happens. *poof* - plain color background. What happens is OSX creates an in-memory copy of the background image to enable fast compositing of everything that is displayed on screen. Move a window, and a portion of the screen has to be redrawn. If this redrawing had to load the image from disk every time you moved something, there would be very serious performance problems. So, when the desktop is initially loaded, the BG image is tucked away in memory.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

If you are uploading from your fone or camera then iPhoto will auto open and ask you if you want to import.

If you think the Mac is difficult then play in the MS world, can you say friggin nightmare, no adherence to any standards, never have, its software by committee. Its so bad that with nearly 200 SW engineers working for me IF you have ever worked at MS, you did not get an interview in my org.

 

[Sugar Land]

I just installed Office 2010 and so far so good.