"Mac OS X: The Missing Manual" Panther Edition by David Pogue 4th Printing Changes Chapter 000 (front matter) (Update) [update printing history] --------------- Chapter 00 (intro) 11 (Update) The text used to read: Version 10.3.1 and Beyond It now reads: Version 10.3.3 and Beyond [also insert this:] In the Spring of 2004, an even more important update came out in the form of 10.3.3-important, that is, if you share files across a network as described in Chapter 12. Apple made the whole thing work far more consistently. --------------- Chapter 2 83 (Minor technical error) [graphic updated so that the illustrated file location matches] --------------- Chapter 4 119 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: Open the program called Activity Viewer. It now reads: Open the program called Activity Monitor. --------------- Chapter 4 145 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: At any time, you can collapse it into simplified view, shown at top in Figure 4-12 It now reads: At any time, you can collapse it into simplified view, shown at top in Figure 4-13 --------------- Chapter 5 176 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: Hold it down until you see the display illustrated in Figure 5-9. It now reads: Hold it down until you see the display illustrated in Figure 5-8. --------------- Chapter 5 177 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: The display shown in Figure 5-9 offers It now reads: The display shown in Figure 5-8 offers --------------- Chapter 7 194 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: The Script menu reflects the contents of two different Scripts folders: the one in your Home->Library Scripts folder, and It now reads: The Script menu reflects the contents of two different Scripts folders: the one in your Home->Library->Scripts folder, and --------------- Chapter 7 206 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: The hand-scripter's more elegant alternative: open folder "untitled folder". It now reads: The hand-scripter's more elegant alternative: open folder "Today's Backup". --------------- Chapter 7 215 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: at which time a message appears, saying, "Someone has put new files into the folder called 'Fish Heads.'" It now reads: at which time a message appears, saying, "Someone has put new files into the folder called Fish Heads." --------------- Chapter 8 245 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: Choose the French keyboard layout from the Input Menu pane, as explained on page 245. It now reads: Choose the French keyboard layout from the Input Menu pane, as explained on page 246. --------------- Chapter 8 248 (Update) [insert at bottom of page] Tip: In Mac OS X 10.3.3 or later, Mac laptops offer a checkbox labeled, "Use h F1-F12 keys for custom actions." Translation: "Require me to press the Fn key whenever I want to use the top-row Fkeys brightness and sound adjustments. Without the Fn key, let the Fkeys work as Fkeys-for Word keyboard shortcuts, for example." --------------- Chapter 9 321 (Minor technical error) [cut this--it doesn't work in Panther:] In fact, you can make Disk Utility always skip that verification business, which is a relic from the floppy-disk days. To do so, choose Disk Utility->Preferences, click the Verifying tab, and turn off Verify Checksums --------------- Chapter 10 350 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: Figure 10-7, for example, illustrates how you'd find up to 74 Beatles tunes released between 1965 and 1968-that you've rated three stars or higher and that you've listened to exactly twice. It now reads: Figure 10-7, for example, illustrates how you'd find up to 74 minutes of Beatles tunes released between 1965 and 1968-that you've rated three stars or higher and that you've listened to less than three times. --------------- Chapter 10 354 (New information) Insert new sidebar: Death to .DS_Store Whenever I upload a folder to my Web server, I see all these little .DS_Store files that I didn't create. How can I get rid of them? .DS_Store files are all over your MacÕs hard drive, probably in the thousands-they're just invisible. In fact, almost every folder contains its own .DS_Store file. This tiny file stores the visual information for the folder that contains it: the current View Options settings, icon positions, and so on. The Finder creats the .DS_Store file as one more little bit of Macintosh elegance, so that the icons on a Mac-burned CD reappear exactly where and how you left them when the disc is inserted in another Mac. (When you burn CDs on a Windows machine, by contrast, you can't specify positions for the icons, a view preference for the window, and so on.) Those .DS_Store files are not, however, invisible on other operating systems, which is why they appear in Windows, on network servers, and so on. Panther is smart enough to omit the .DS_Store files when you burn a CD bound for Windows, but they can still be a nuisance on networks, Web servers, and so on. If they're plaguing you, the shareware program DS_Store Terminator, available from the Missing CD page at this book's Web site, can eliminate them. You can also type a quick Terminal command (see Chapter 15); for all the variations and caveats of this approach, visit macosxhints.com and search for .DS_Store. Either way, don't move or open the affected folder until after you've transferred it. Doing so makes another .DS_Store file sprout right up in the first one's place. --------------- Chapter 11 373 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: Bottom: The files and settings of accounts you deleted live on, in the Users->Deleted Users->[name] folder. It now reads: Bottom: The files and settings of accounts you deleted live on, in the Users->Deleted Users->[name] disk image. --------------- Chapter 11 378 (Update) The text used to read: My wife and my eight-year-old kid share my Mac. Over the years, we've amassed a fabulous collection of MP3 files, but at the moment, I'm the only one who sees them in iTunes. This business of separate environments for every account holder is all well and good, but what about when we want to access the same files-like our iTunes library? The problem is that the iTunes library is stored in the Music folder of just one person. Fortunately, the solution is easy enough. Whoever is the administrator-probably your eight-year-old-should move the iTunes folder (currently in somebody's Music folder) to the Users->Shared folder. Now it's available to everybody. At this point, each account holder can log in, fire up iTunes, choose iTunes->Preferences->Advanced, and click the Change button to choose the relocated iTunes Music Folder in the Shared folder. From now on, each person will be able to see and access the entire library of iTunes tunes, but will still enjoy the flexibility to build individual playlists. It now reads: My wife, eight-year-old kid, and I have amassed a fabulous collection of MP3 files, but I'm the only one who sees them in iTunes. This business of separate accounts is all well and good, but how can we access the same iTunes library? Whoever is the administrator-probably your eight-year-old-should move the iTunes folder (currently in somebody's Music folder) to the Users->Shared folder, so it's available to everybody. At this point, each account holder should log in, fire up iTunes, choose iTunes->Preferences->Advanced, and click the Change button to choose the relocated iTunes Music Folder in the Shared folder. Finally, open the Shared->iTunes Music folder in the Finder. With the iTunes program open, drag the iTunes Music folder directly onto the Library icon in the Source list. iTunes takes a moment not to copy the music files, but rather to "notice" and register them. From now on, each person will be able to see and access the entire library of iTunes tunes, but will still enjoy the flexibility to customize their own ratings, playlists, and so on. Ah, harmony! --------------- Chapter 11 382 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: (You can see this dialog box in Figure 11-12) It now reads: (You can see this dialog box in Figure 11-9.) --------------- Chapter 11 383 (Update) [insert new bullet point:] ¥ Only one person at a time can use the Classic environment (Chapter 5) or iTunes (Chapter 10). --------------- Chapter 11 384 (Update) [Add this bullet:] * A few programs, like Macromedia's MX 2004 programs (Freehand, Dreamweaver, and so on), don't work when Fast User Switching is turned on. Bummer. --------------- Chapter 12 396 (Update) [Insert this tip after step 4:] Tip: If you click Options at this point (Mac OS X 10.3.3 and later), you're offered the deluxe password settings shown in Figure 12-7. They include the delightful and time-saving Add Password to Keychain option, which makes the Mac memorize your password for a certain disk so you don't have to type it in every darned time you connect. --------------- Chapter 12 397 (Update) [insert this paragraph before the heading:] Beginning with Mac OS X 10.3.3, you also get an icon, representing the networked disk or folder, on the right side of your screen and in the Sidebar. This icon makes it easy to remember that you're still connected, easy to burrow into the connected machine, and easy to disconnect from it (by ejecting the icon as you would any disk). --------------- Chapter 12 398 (Update) [cut this paragraph] * Except as noted in Figure 12-5, the Sidebar method doesn't offer an "Add to Keychain" option (page 416) that makes the Mac memorize your password for a certain disk so you don't have to type it in every darned time you connect. --------------- Chapter 12 401 (Update) The text used to read: Tip: The Connect to Server command displays each connected disk as an icon in your Sidebar, even within the Open or Save dialog boxes of your programs. You donÕt have to burrow through the Sidebar's Network icon to open files from them, or save files onto them. It now reads: Tip: Here's a handy side effect of using the Connect to Server command. It displays each connected disk as an icon in your Sidebar, even within the Open or Save dialog boxes of your programs. You don't have to burrow through the Sidebar's Network icon to open files from them, or save files onto them. --------------- Chapter 12 404 (Update) [cut this:] * You want your co-workers to be able to access other folders? --------------- Chapter 12 404 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: As Figure 12-11 makes clear, turning off File Sharing gives you the opportunity to send a little message It now reads: As Figure 12-10 makes clear, turning off File Sharing gives you the opportunity to send a little message --------------- Chapter 12 405 (Update) [cut this:] * You find it annoying that Standard account holders can't access the other disks attached to your Mac from across the network? --------------- Chapter 12 405 (Update) The text used to read: It's perfectly possible to make individual folders either more protected or less protected, as you see fit-a bit technically hairy, but possible. It now reads: ItÕs perfectly possible to make individual folders, or even individual files, either more protected or less protected, as you see fit-a bit technically hairy, but possible. --------------- Chapter 12 405 (Update) [insert this Note] Note: It would be nice if the permissions described in the following pages affected your access to shared icons no matter where you are: seated in front of the machine or accessing it from across the network. In fact, however, Mac OS X uses two different mechanisms for this process. The following pages describe changing permissions for local access (that is, in person). You'll find, though, that for network use, the changes you make here can give somebody less access to a folder, but not more. For networking purposes, freely upgrading or downgrading network file-sharing permissions requires a program like Sharepoints, available at www.hornware.com. You'd use Sharepoints, for example, to make your Shared folder available to other people on the network. (It's ordinarily invisible from across the network.) --------------- Chapter 12 406 (Update) [layout changes to accommodate the insert on page 405] --------------- Chapter 12 407 (Update) [layout changes to accommodate the insert on page 405] --------------- Chapter 13 448 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: Now your cursor turns into a tiny camera (Figure 13-12, bottom). It now reads: Now your cursor turns into a tiny camera (Figure 13-11, bottom). --------------- Chapter 16 517 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: Type in the entire command that you want to memorialize (sudo chmod o+x /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat, for example). It now reads [note the o-x]: Type in the entire command that you want to memorialize (sudo chmod o-x /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat, for example). --------------- Chapter 16 520 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: It's perfectly easy to shut down your Mac from the [apple] menu. But using shutdown in Terminal has its advantages. For one thing, you can control when the shutdown occurs, using one of these three flags: * Now. You can safely shut down by typing shutdown now. (Actually, only the root user is allowed to use shutdown, so you'd really type sudo shutdown now and then type in your administrator's password when asked.) * Later today. The -h flag means, "shut down at the time I specify." Typing sudo shutdown -h 2330, for example, shuts down your machine at 11:30 p.m. today (2330 is military-time notation for 11:30 p.m.). * Any time in the next 100 years. To make the machine shut down at 5:00 p.m. on November 5, 2004, for example, you could type sudo shutdown 0411051700. (That number code is in year [last two digits]:month:date:hour:minute format. So 0504051700 means 2005, April 5, 5:00 p.m.) Tip: Once you set the auto-shutdown robot in motion, you can't stop it easily. You must use the kill command described above to terminate the shutdown process itself. To find out shutdown's ID number in order to terminate it, use the top or ps command. Nor are those the only useful flags. For example: * The -r flag means "restart instead of just shutting down," as in sudo shutdown -r now. * You can use shutdown to knock all connected network users off your machine without actually shutting down. Use the --k flag, like this: sudo shutdown -k now. One of the most powerful uses of shutdown is turning off Macs by remote control, either from across the network or across the world via Internet. That is, you can use telnet or SSH (both described in Chapter 21) to issue this command. It now reads: It's perfectly easy to shut down your Mac from the @ap menu. But using shutdown with its -h flag (for "halt") in Terminal has its advantages. For one thing, you can control when the shutdown occurs, using one of these three options: * Now. You can safely shut down by typing shutdown -h now. (Actually, only the root user is allowed to use shutdown, so you'd really type sudo shutdown -h now and then type in your administrator's password when asked.) * Later today. Specify a time instead of now. Typing sudo shutdown -h 2330, for example, shuts down your machine at 11:30 p.m. today (2330 is military-time notation for 11:30 p.m.). * Any time in the next 100 years. To make the machine shut down at 5:00 p.m. on November 5, 2004, for example, you could type sudo shutdown -h 0411051700. (That number code is in year [last two digits]:month:date:hour:minute format. So 0504051700 means 2005, April 5, 5:00 p.m.) Tip: Once you set the auto-shutdown robot in motion, you canÕt stop it easily. You must use the kill command described above to terminate the shutdown process itself. To find out shutdown's ID number in order to terminate it, look for the pid number in the output of the shutdown command, or use the top or ps command. Nor are those the only useful flags. For example: * Using the -r flag instead of -h means "restart instead of just shutting down," as in sudo shutdown -r now. * You can use shutdown to knock all connected network users off your machine without actually shutting down. Use the --k flag, like this: sudo shutdown -k now. One of the most powerful uses of shutdown is turning off Macs by remote control, either from across the network or across the world via Internet. That is, you can use telnet or SSH (both described in Chapter 21) to issue this command. --------------- Chapter 16 527 (Typo or formatting problem) [Both bottom code examples should have a space and two hyphens as shown here, rather than a long dash:] sips -f vertical TenLakes.jpg --out TenLakesFlipped.jpg --------------- Chapter 19 574 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: Each has its own distinct feeling, with Dif-Dif-Different strengths and weaknesses It now reads: Each has its own distinct feeling, with different strengths and weaknesses --------------- Chapter 20 637 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: over and over again. (See Figure 20-20.) It now reads: over and over again. (See Figure 20-17.) --------------- Chapter 20 651 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: Choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu, and then in the new window, open Contents->Resources->English.lproj. It now reads: Choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu, and then in the new window, open Contents->Resources. --------------- Chapter 28 (index) 739 (Update) [new entry:] .DS_Store files, 354 --------------- Chapter 28 (index) 751 (Update) [new entry:] Mac OS X, 10.3.3, 11, 248, 396, 397 ---------------