please help me, This is horrible
First off, Im a windows power user, and I just got my mac today, And this is HELL. I feel like if i try to do anything thats not what the "end user" would do its the hardest thing in the world. Im dying trying to do a bunch of things like, Make the font in my buddy list smaller(adium), Import my del.icou.us bookmarks into firefox (I cant find the damn firefox folder!) as a matter in fact, I cant find any application folders for any programs I installed....all I can find Is the "disk"...which is now stuck on my desktop, and I dont want the disk shortcuts on my desktop. Im having a ton of problems and im only about one hour into this....ahhhhh...i try googling for help for a lot of my problems but im not really finding any help. I still have a ton of things to do like transfer my 80+ gigs of music from my windows box, install about 10x programs including an itunes alternative ( damn that i tunes is horrendous, it locks up on any encounter with an ogg file.)
sorry about the long rant/ whiny post but im going insane right now, If anyone could help me with at least the problems noted above I would greatly GREATLY appreciate it.
also I forgot to mention...I cant figure out how to make the mac equivlent of a windows "shortcut" I tried to drag my documents file from finder to my desktop and it dissapeard =[ also, I cant drag it back in from my user name> documents. agggggggghhh
sorry about the long rant/ whiny post but im going insane right now, If anyone could help me with at least the problems noted above I would greatly GREATLY appreciate it.
also I forgot to mention...I cant figure out how to make the mac equivlent of a windows "shortcut" I tried to drag my documents file from finder to my desktop and it dissapeard =[ also, I cant drag it back in from my user name> documents. agggggggghhh
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First off, Im a windows power user, and I just got my mac today, And this is HELL. I feel like if i try to do anything thats not what the "end user" would do its the hardest thing in the world. Im dying trying to do a bunch of things like, Make the font in my buddy list smaller(adium),
Adium menu -> Preferences -> Appearance -> List layout: Customise -> Contacts -> Contact Font -> Set Font.
as a matter in fact, I cant find any application folders for any programs I installed....
They're in the Applications folder on your hard disk.
all I can find Is the "disk"...which is now stuck on my desktop, and I dont want the disk shortcuts on my desktop.
If you don't want it there, go to the finder, then to the Finder menu -> Preferences -> General -> Show these items on Desktop.
If you hide it, then to open the disk you click the Finder icon (left most icon on the dock) to open a Finder window, and it'll show in the sidebar of that.
also I forgot to mention...I cant figure out how to make the mac equivlent of a windows "shortcut" I tried to drag my documents file from finder to my desktop and it dissapeard =[ also, I cant drag it back in from my user name> documents. agggggggghhh
I'm guessing you tried to drag it from the sidebar of a window, rather than from the content of a window. You should be able to drag it back to the sidebar using the method you describe, though.
To make a shortcut, hold command (the apple key) and option when you drag.
Amorya
Quick bit of advice: look in the menus. Really.
Windows apps tend to hide functionality in context menus, wizards, tab panels from hell, and all over the place.
One of the cornerstones of the Mac UI is that *every* task should be discoverable through the menu bar. Contextual menus are just there for efficiency after you learn what you can do. This means that you can *almost* always find what you need by looking in the menus, on your own, without asking.
FWIW, I crack open a manual, help file, or ReadMe about never. When I get a new app, I...
1) Scan all the menus. Find out what you can do.
2) Look in the Preferences. Find out what you can change.
And that's pretty much it.