Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
David Pogue

Changes made in the 10th printing (June 2002)

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AppleScript genuis Bill Briggs 
 
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Note: A series of minor, no-new-features updates followed, including 10.1.1 
(improvements in USB and FireWire, printing, camera compatibility, CD burning, 
etc.), 10.1.2 (better DVD playback, USB and FireWire compatibility, and so on), 
and 10.1.3 (still more hardware compatibility updates and bug fixes). The Software 
Update feature (page 203) is designed to notify you automatically when they become available.

 
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Note: A series of minor, no-new-features updates followed, numbered 10.1.1 
through 10.1.5. Each introduced bug fixes, improvements in USB and FireWire, 
updates to underlying Unix modules, and greater compatibility with cameras, 
camcorders, CD burners, and so on. The Software Update feature (page 203) is 
designed to notify you automatically when they become available-at least until 
the big Jaguar upgrade, due for fall 2002.

 
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The chapters in Part 1, The Mac OS X Desktop, covers everything 
 
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The chapters in Part 1, The Mac OS X Desktop, cover everything 
 
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You'll note a few Mac OS X nuances, however:
 
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But you'll note a few new nuances in Mac OS X menus:
 
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(You'll find details on moving and copying icons later in this chapter.)
 
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(You'll find details on moving and copying icons in the next chapter.)
 
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As of Mac OS X 10.1.5, you have to quit and re-launch your program, or 
log out and back in, to see the change in behavior.)
 
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As of Mac OS X 10.1.1,
 
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As of Mac OS X 10.1.5,
 
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If your Home folder window is already open, for example, you can open the Pictures folder just by typing /Pictures. 
 
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If your Home folder window is already open, for example, you can open the Pictures folder just by typing Pictures. 
 
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(You always leave off the name
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(Leaving off the name of your hard drive is optional.)
 
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(It's best not to move or rename this folder.)
 
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(Annoyingly enough, some programs-notably AppleWorks-store their preferences here instead of in the Library folder.)
 
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To rename a file, begin with one of these two methods:
 o Click once on the icon, and then press Return or Enter (any window view). 
 o Click once squarely on the icon's name (list and column views only).
 
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To rename a file, begin with one of these two methods:
 o Click once on the icon, and then press Return or Enter. 
 o Click once squarely on the icon's name. (If the window is in icon view, 
   this method works only if the icon is already selected.)

 
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That is, choose Go->Favorites (or press
 
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That is, choose Go-> Favorites -> Go To Favorites (or press 
 
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 o General Information. Here's where you can view (and edit) the name of the icon
 
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 o General Information. Here's where you can view the name of the icon
 
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Use this shortcut instead: Just hold down the letter X key down while the Mac is starting up. 
 
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Use this shortcut instead: Just hold down the letter X key while the Mac is starting up.
 
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either its name or PC address
 
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either its name or IP address
 
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use AppleDouble. File attachments encoded using this method arrive intact on both Mac and Windows machines. 
 
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MIME/Base 64 or AppleDouble. File attachments encoded this way arrive intact on both Mac and Windows machines. 
 
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Note: If any Macs on your network run some version of the Mac OS before 9.0, 
also click the AppleTalk tab and turn on "make AppleTalk active." (The technical 
reason: All modern Macs communicate using the TCP/IP language, just as the 
Internet does. Older Macs spoke only the Apple-only AppleTalk protocol.) 

Setting up a pre-Mac OS X machine

Setting up a Mac that's running Mac OS 8.5 through Mac OS 9-point-whatever, 
if there is one on your network, follows almost exactly the same steps as 
outlined above-but the locations of the controls are different. Here's a summary:

 o Setting up user accounts. Use the Users & Groups tab of the File Sharing control panel.
 o Naming the computer. Use the File Sharing control panel.
 o Clicking Start. You do this in the File Sharing control panel, as well. But 
   there's one important additional step: Turn on the checkbox called "Enable 
   File Sharing clients to connect over TCP/IP" (shown at the very bottom of Figure 12-3).

The TCP/IP option is available only in Mac OS 8.5 and later. Without it, you won't 
be able to access the files or folders on your Mac OS 8 computer from a Mac OS X 
machine. (You will, however, be able to go the other direction: you'll be able to 
access a Mac OS X machine on the network from your much older machine.) 

 
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Note: If any Macs on your network run some version of the Mac OS before 9.0, also 
click the AppleTalk tab and turn on "make AppleTalk active." (The technical reason: 
All modern Macs communicate using the TCP/IP language, just as the Internet does. 
Older Macs spoke only the Apple-only AppleTalk protocol.) 

Setting up a pre-Mac OS X machine

Setting up a Mac that's running Mac OS 8.5 through Mac OS 9-point-whatever, if there 
is one on your network, follows almost exactly the same steps as outlined above-but 
the locations of the controls are different. Here's a summary:

 o Setting up user accounts. Use the Users & Groups tab of the File Sharing control panel.
 o Naming the computer. Use the File Sharing control panel.
 o Clicking Start. You do this in the File Sharing control panel, as well. But there's 
   one additional step: Turn on the checkbox called "Enable File Sharing clients to 
   connect over TCP/IP," if you have it (shown at the very bottom of Figure 12-3).

This TCP/IP option is available in Mac OS 9 and later. If your Mac runs Mac OS 8.5 or 
8.6, be sure to turn on AppleTalk on the Mac OS X machine (see the top of this page). 
Without either TCP/IP or AppleTalk, you won't be able to access the files or folders 
on your older computer from a Mac OS X machine. (You will, however, be able to go the 
other direction: you'll be able to access a Mac OS X machine on the network from your older machine.) 

 
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Note: If any Macs on your network run some version of the Mac OS before 9.0, also click 
the AppleTalk tab and turn on "make AppleTalk active." (The technical reason: All modern 
Macs communicate using the TCP/IP language, just as the Internet does. Older Macs spoke 
only the Apple-only AppleTalk protocol.) 

Setting up a pre-Mac OS X machine

Setting up a Mac that's running Mac OS 8.5 through Mac OS 9-point-whatever, if there is 
one on your network, follows almost exactly the same steps as outlined above-but the 
locations of the controls are different. Here's a summary:

 o Setting up user accounts. Use the Users & Groups tab of the File Sharing control panel.
 o Naming the computer. Use the File Sharing control panel.
 o Clicking Start. You do this in the File Sharing control panel, as well. But there's one 
   important additional step: Turn on the checkbox called "Enable File Sharing clients to 
   connect over TCP/IP" (shown at the very bottom of Figure 12-3).
 
The TCP/IP option is available only in Mac OS 8.5 and later. Without it, you won't be able 
to access the files or folders on your Mac OS 8 computer from a Mac OS X machine. (You will, 
however, be able to go the other direction: you'll be able to access a Mac OS X machine on 
the network from your much older machine.) 

 
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Note: If any Macs on your network run some version of the Mac OS before 9.0, also click the 
AppleTalk tab and turn on "make AppleTalk active." (The technical reason: All modern Macs 
communicate using the TCP/IP language, just as the Internet does. Older Macs spoke only the 
Apple-only AppleTalk protocol.) 

Setting up a pre-Mac OS X machine

Setting up a Mac that's running Mac OS 8.5 through Mac OS 9-point-whatever, if there is one 
on your network, follows almost exactly the same steps as outlined above-but the locations of 
the controls are different. Here's a summary:

 o Setting up user accounts. Use the Users & Groups tab of the File Sharing control panel.
 o Naming the computer. Use the File Sharing control panel.
 o Clicking Start. You do this in the File Sharing control panel, as well. But there's one 
   additional step: Turn on the checkbox called "Enable File Sharing clients to connect over 
   TCP/IP," if you have it (shown at the very bottom of Figure 12-3).

This TCP/IP option is available in Mac OS 9 and later. If your Mac runs Mac OS 8.5 or 8.6, 
be sure to turn on AppleTalk on the Mac OS X machine (see the top of this page). Without 
either TCP/IP or AppleTalk, you won't be able to access the files or folders on your older 
computer from a Mac OS X machine. (You will, however, be able to go the other direction: 
you'll be able to access a Mac OS X machine on the network from your older machine.) 

 
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 2. In Photoshop, choose File->Open. Navigate to the System->Library->
    CoreServices->Dock.app->Contents->Resources folder of your Mac OS X disk.

Inside you'll find quite a number of files. The three you care about are the graphics files 
that constitute the Dock. They're called left.pdf, middle.pdf, and right.pdf.  You'll probably 
notice right away that these are tiny files, only a few pixels square. Mac OS X creates the 
Dock's background by tiling them over and over.

Tip: If you think you may want to go back to the Dock's original look after your experiment, 
make a safety copy of them before proceeding.
 3. Open the three PDF ?les and edit them.

The left and right files are only very narrow "bookends" for the Dock itself. Most of what you 
see is the middle file.  If you decide to keep these files at their original sizes, you can't 
do much beyond changing their color or pattern. But if you decide to resize the middle graphic 
and paste in an entirely new image, the sky's the limit (see Figure 17-2).

 
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 2. In the Finder, open the System->Library->CoreServices folder. Control-click the Dock.app icon; 
    choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. In the Dock.app window, open the 
    Contents->Resources folder.

Inside you'll find quite a number of files. The three you care about are the graphics files that 
constitute the Dock. They're called left.pdf, middle.pdf, and right.pdf.   You'll probably notice 
right away that these are tiny files, only a few pixels square. Mac OS X creates the Dock's 
background by tiling them over and over.

Tip: If you think you may want to go back to the Dock's original look after your experiment, make 
a safety copy of these PDF files before proceeding.

 3. Drag the three PDF ?les to the desktop. Switch into Photoshop, open them using the File->Open 
    command, and edit them.

The left and right ?fies are only very narrow "bookends" for the Dock itself. Most of what you see 
is the middle file.  If you decide to keep these files at their original sizes, you can't do much 
beyond changing their color or pattern. But if you decide to resize the middle graphic and paste in 
an entirely new image, the sky's the limit (see Figure 17-2).

 4. Save your changes, put the edited PDF files back where you found them (Resources folder), 
    and restart in Mac OS X.
 
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When you start up Mac OS X, the system automatically launches whatever program is called Dock.app in 
your SystemFLibraryFCoreServices folder. If, like many people, you become addicted to a Dock replacement 
program like DragThing (shareware), no big deal: After making a safety copy of the original Dock.app, 
replace it, in its original folder, with a copy of DragThing that you've renamed Dock.app. 
Now every time you turn the Mac on, you'll get DragThing instead of the Dock.
 
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When you start up Mac OS X, the system automatically launches Dock.app in your System->Library->
CoreServices folder. If, like many people, you become addicted to a Dock replacement like DragThing 
(shareware), no big deal: Restart in Mac OS 9 and move Dock.app to a different folder.  Then start 
up in Mac OS X again. Using the Login panel of System Preferences, set up DragThing to open automatically 
at login time. Now every time you sign in, you'll get DragThing instead of the Dock. (To reinstate the 
original Dock, just put Dock.app back where it came from.)
 
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Most of the time, you don't have to do anything on this tab. 
 
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Your main mission here is to fill in the Domain Name Server numbers provided by your ISP-at least if 
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The previous instructions show you how to turn your Mac into an FTP server. But you can also visit 
other FTP sites without even needing a program like Fetch or Interarchie.

Just choose GoFConnect to Server. In the dialog box that appears, type the FTP address of the server 
you want (such as ftp://ftp.apple.com). After you click Connect and wait a moment, you'll be asked 
for your name and password, as provided by whoever is hosting the FTP site. Once you type in this 
information, the FTP server shows up on the right side of your screen as though it's just another disk (Figure 21-3).
 
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The previous instructions show you how to turn your Mac into an FTP server. But you can also visit other FTP sites.

The easiest way is simply to type the FTP address into the address bar of a Web browser like Internet 
Explorer, like this: ftp://ftp.apple.com. Of course, you can also download a true FTP client program 
like Fetch or Interarchy (visit www.versiontracker.com) to get the latest. Each offers a simple way to 
access other people's FTP sites.
 
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The previous instructions show you how to turn your Mac into an FTP server. But you can also visit other 
FTP sites without even needing a program like Fetch or Interarchie.

Just choose GoFConnect to Server. In the dialog box that appears, type the FTP address of the server you 
want (such as ftp://ftp.apple.com). After you click Connect and wait a moment, you'll be asked for your 
name and password, as provided by whoever is hosting the FTP site. Once you type in this information, 
the FTP server shows up on the right side of your screen as though it's just another disk (Figure 21-3).
 
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The previous instructions show you how to turn your Mac into an FTP server. But you can also visit other 
FTP sites.

The easiest way is simply to type the FTP address into the address bar of a Web browser like Internet 
Explorer, like this: ftp://ftp.apple.com. Of course, you can also download a true FTP client program 
like Fetch or Interarchy (visit www.versiontracker.com) to get the latest. Each offers a simple way to 
access other people's FTP sites.
 
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Tip: You can back out of the installation at any time before step 7
 
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Tip: You can back out of the installation at any time before step 6
 
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