Mac OSX Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue The unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the opinion of the readers. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification This page was updated July 17, 2008. UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers: (2) Last paragraph in FAQ All About "Leopard"; Regarding future Mac OS X versions: 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9...surely THEN Mac OS XI (not 10.10). Therefore text should read, "has four big cats to go" (5) Under "About the Outline" . . . Part 2."; The word "Applications" in "Applications in Mac OS X" should probably read "Programs" in order to be consistent with the Table of Contents, "Part Two: Programs in Mac OS X." Also, page 11: under the sub-heading "Home, End," the final parenthetical entry is missing the closing parenthesis. Also, page 11: under the sub-heading "Clear," a word is missing: "Clear gets rid of the [??] you've highlighted . . . ." Also, page 12: under "Tip," the ref is made to page "9," but I think it should be page "10." Also, page 20: The 2nd sentence of the 2nd "Tip" is missing a word: "If [? you ?] give the menu name a quick click, etc . . . ." (6) Nostalgia Corner last paragraph; Appendix F referenced in paragraph to be available or download at www.missingmanuals.com not found on site even with site search. (10) Below Figure 1-2; Suggest a Note/Tip advising see www.apple.com/keyboard/ to view both the wired and wireless keyboards. {10} 3rd Paragraph; In the example of uses for the Fn key on laptops, you state the Fn key turns the up arrow key into the "Home" key, over in fact it turns the up arrow into "page up" as detailed on page 11. (11) Subject Clear; Noun missing between "the" and "you've" (12) Tip at the bottom of the page; in this tip, there is a reference to p. 9, but the relevant information can not be found on that page. {24..26} 24 - title bar. 26 - go to folder; Page 24, Title bar. Not a mistake, but missing information! You CAN drag anything to the TITLE BAR of a window, and it docks there and acts exactly as in the dock or side bar. Removing is by Command-drag. This worked also on previous version of OS X. Page 26 and others: the Tilde [~] key is NOT always at the top left corner of the keyboard. In my [original Apple keyboard] it is left of the Z key. (41) Second last line of page (in para under bolded "Show icon preview" heading); It appears that "Figures 1-15" should read "Figure 1-14" (48) Figure 1-18 and UP TO SPEED; The equivalent keystrokes are command + → (right arrow) and command + ← (left arrow) in the figure 1-18. Also in the last paragraph of "UP TO SPEED", Command + Option + → (right arrow) is correct. Anyhow the shortcut keystrokes using arrow keys are mistyped successively. (50) last paragraph; The first time ever I used the Mac, I wondered why folders were not grouped into a particular category in the list view. For example, my 'errata' folder includes 'Leopard' and 'Vista' folder, and other trivial files, which may be Safari's copies and so on. Sorting them by the column of 'Name', the Mac sorts 'Leopard' at the middle and 'Vista' at the bottom without discriminating other files. Every applications work in the same way. Before opening hierarchical subfolders, users must search the target folder to the bottom. Although the MS Windows steals many ideas of the Mac, the sort by 'Name' is done in the two categories of folders and files. It seems more convenient to users. (52) 3rd paragraph from the bottom; Pressing Option key and pointing to a truncated file shows its full name instantly. It does not need to whip the mouse. (53) 4th paragraph from the bottom; Clicking a Sidebar item does not show always a column view. If it is designated as 'Always open in icon view', clicking it shows contents inside it as icon, but not as column. [54] 5th paragraph; If a selected icon is a folder without any view option, opening it means nothing to do. (56) 5th paragraph; To look up 'Desktop Pictures' folder inside 'Library' folder in the Cover Flow view, press Command + 4. Because Its first item is 'Abstract' folder, this view selects it. when pressing Command + 3 to return to the column view immediately, the pane goes forward to the selected item 'Abstract' folder and shows its contents. Must the Cover Flow view select the first item? When clicking anywhere far right in the list view, no items can be selected, although the Cover View remains still, showing some item in the frontmost. This way to select some item without users' permission seems strange because other views never select any item in contract to users' intent. {57} Last paragraph (text after bullet) (Jan 2008 2nd Printing); Possible technical mistake. Using MacBook Pro, OS 10.5.2 Text says user can change relative size of cover flow window using grip strip area beneath cover flow scrollbar. On my machine, arrow changes to hand, but size of cover flow window does not change very much when hand moves grip strip. Tried using various function keys while dragging, but this had no effect on what I could do with the grip handle. "Resizing handle" (illustrated at p. 28 of my Manual) significantly changes the size of the cover flow window, while the size of the list remains the same. (58-9) the last paragraph at 58 page and the first at 59; Two methods at last cannot fire up Quick Look, when the selected item is a folder. I wonder why they do not have the same menu item as the 'File' menu. (58) 5th paragraph from the bottom; Space bar is surely the easiest shortcut. By the way, when a folders' name begins at a space for sort by name to list up folders at the top, this shortcut makes useless to select some folder by its name. Shift + Space bar and typing a few first words of a folder name can select it. [61] 2nd paragraph; 'Add to iPhoto' control appears neither in Quick look nor Slideshow. (62) first paragraph; A little difference exists between Quick look and Preview slideshow. The latter uses the visual effect of fade-in and out. (62) 3rd paragraph; Option-Command-Eject can make the Mac in sleep mode immediately. (64) Figure 1-28; Surely FireFox shows the same result as the Finder Help. However, TextEdit or Safari does not, which Apple attaches the Mac originally. {65} Note at the Bottom of page 65; The note at the bottom of page 65 states that a "...circled question-mark button in the lower right corner of each System Preferences panel..." This question-mark button does not appear (on my system at least) in a few of the preference panes - namely Spotlight and Startup Disk. Recommend changing "each System Preferences panel..." to "...most of the System Preferences panels..." (65) Note at bottom; The question mark is not blue, but gray. (66) the last paragraph; In Safari, to execute 'Save As', open the Help menu and type 'Save'. Surprisingly the floating arrow points to 'Close Tab' and selecting 'Close Tab' opens 'Save As' dialog. {66} Text in Gem in the Rough box, second column, Supertip; This is a report of incongruity. I don't know whether the problem is mine or is in the text. MacBook Pro running 10.5.2 January 2008 Printing This is a great tip! In Safari, I only get history results, not bookmark results. I did not test Firefox as I have no history or bookmarks to speak of on it. [73] Within TIP; "left or right arrows... insertion point jumps to the corresponding end of file name." Well, ALL arrows work. The UP arrow gets to the BEGINNING of the file name [or to previous LINE within the file name!] the DOWN arrow gets to the END or to the next line within the filename. LEFT arrow goes on characters left [on the first click after the "enter" it gets to the beginning] RIGHT arrow goes one character right. {74} Within "tip about renaming icons" in the middle of the page; Your text is: "To force a particular FOLDER to appear at the top of the list view window, insert a SPACE before the name." My comment: This USED to be true and still is... partly. BUT 1. This naming trick works for NY file. Not just folders. 2. More important - this trick is conflicting with QUICKVIEW [activated by space] One trick to getting to a file is typing the first letter of its name. Try this with a SPACE and Quick Look opens the currently selected file... So I would change SPACE into UnderLine or another non-space special character. {90} Second bullet under "Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy"; "Shift Command Delete" securely empties the trash in Leopard rather than just emptying the trash. (91) 2nd and 3rd paragraphs (page references to Jan 2008 edition); Suggestion: In discussion of Secure Empty trash, included a cross-reference to srm (Secure Removal) in the Unix chapter. (The medium level description gives detail on secure empty trash.) There does not seem to be a cross-reference in the index, and that would be useful also. (I spent some time tracking down "Mac OS X Security Configuration" on Apple's site.) P.S. There is an interesting white paper on hard drive security on Wiebe Tech's website. http://www.wiebetech.com/whitepapers/Hard_Drive_Disposal_Security.php {95} Second bullet "General"; Maybe a mistake. Jan 2008 printing, OS 10.5.2 The text in the "General" bullet and the text in the "Name & Extension" bullet both say that in this location you can view and edit the name of the icon. I seem to be able to do this only in the "Name & Extension" portion of the Get Info screen. (95) 3rd paragraph; To prevent unexpected overwriting, a file should be write-protected. In this case, which is the relevant control? "Lock" is used to mean write-protect before Mac OS 9, while Mac OS X has a different meaning. The first thing to do is to click the LOCK icon at the right bottom. Via permission, all users should be changed to read-only. It makes a file write-protected. There is its explanation far afterwards at 514 page. Why may the Info dialog be closed in the state of unlock? It seems intuitively more understandable to click "lock icon" from "unlock" to "lock" again. {103} "Limit by recent date"; The list shown here is used only with a keyword date: Other resembling criteria like created; or modified: cannot work with these keywords like "today" at all. created:today does not work at all, while date:today functions well, though it includes date modified. {103} Limit by recent date; Only today, tomorrow, and yesterday works correctly. Other keywords does not work at all. (103) 2nd paragraph; kind:folder includes kind of volume. {104} 6th paragraph; created:=6/1/08 does not work at all, because of a meaningless equal sign. created:6/1/08 works correctly. An equal sign is not only unnecessary, but also a mistake. {107} "Boolean searches"; By default the spotlight search combines each word with AND. Therefore, kind:jpeg AND kind:pdf brings out he same result as kind:jpeg kind:pdf or (kind:jpeg kind:pdf) Meanwhile OR combination of each word springs out the different result. {107} last paragraph; In contrast to Tiger, Leopard spotlight highlights "Top Hit", otherwise the second row such as "Applicaition", "Documents", "Folders" and so on, but never "Show All". To open Spotlight window without clicking, we must use the up-arrow key once. {109} last paragraph; Spotlight window search can discriminate files by metadata such as kind and date, shown as http://screencast.com/t/PPj06As8F {109}"Where to Look" paragraph, 'Note' section at the bottom of the page; The 'Note' box states the following: 'Note: If no folder window is open when you press Cmd-F, this button says "Casey" (or whatever); it identifies your Home folder. That is, Spotlight is prepared to search all your stuff on this Mac.' Actually that is not correct. In such usage-scenario Spotlight identifies folder that has been set up in General section of Finder Preferences. Procedure of defining this folder is described in the 'Tip' box on page 33. (113) 5th paragraph ; When searching by 'Filename' 'is' 'spotlight', the result is only folders named as 'Spotlight', not but 'Spotlight.app' or 'Spotlight.doc'. Why does FILEname search bring out FOLDERS, while looking up by 'Name' 'is' 'Spotlight' results a file like 'Spotlight.prefPane' without such folders? (113) 4th paragpraph ; When searching by name as criteria of *spotlight" "is", "spotlight.Prefpane" is found. It does not coincide *spotlight". (140) 3rd paragraph; The explanation of shortcut key of Eject is lack of E. {149} 2nd para; Internet Explorer is listed as one of the Mac OS X ready programs. {157} last paragraph; command-tilde does not work at all. Finder has a resembling menu item which is equall to command-`, while TextEdit cannot call other window in frontmost by any shortcut keys. (158) last paragraph; I set up F3 to the Desktop, as the author suggested before. So simple tapping F3 eliminates every windows to the fore. The necessary file can be easily found at the core. If Space is not used, no problems will come at the door. If not so, the trouble is there, because Space falls in the air. [163]3rd paragraph; The third paragraph says the following about OS X's Spaces: "But [virtual desktops have] never before been a standard feature of an operating system, ..." This is taken directly from Apple's marketing material and is completely false. Solaris came with CDE (common desktop environment) that had virtual desktops on by default as early as 1996 or so. If you really want to split hairs you could say that you had to install the whole graphical interface separately so it is technically not "a standard feature of an operating system." Even so, the first version of Ubuntu Linux, which shipped three years before Leopard, came with virtual desktops enabled by default. [298] Power Users' Clinic - Beyond the Big Names - second paragraph; The second paragraph reads: "Both also let you specify which program - Mac or Windows - opens when you double-click documents of specific types (like JPEG or .DOC)." This is incorrect. VMware Fusion cannot do this. Here's a quote from a WMware forum admin, which appears as a reply to several open-with-Word-in-Windows type questions: "Fusion doesn't currently support cross-platform file associations, so you can't do that. The developers are aware the people would like this functionality, but VMware policy is to not comment on unannounced features, products, timelines, etc. so I can't say more." Here's the thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/895461#895461 P.S. If page 298 says ".DOC" shouldn't it also say ".JPG"? {323-5} Missing DISPLAY control panel description !; The DISPLAY control panel has an option that appears ONLY when the "proper" display is connected. ROTATE ! It allows you to define the display as rotated by 90 degree steps. So you can put your [external] display sideways, or use PIVOT displays. My own display is NOT recognized as "rotatable" so I do not have the exact wording at hand. But this great feature works great. (338) 1st bullet; "When you turn this option in..." should read "When you turn this option on..." (343) Figure 9-15; 'Apple has always created updated and bug-fixing versions of its software components,' Should read . . . 'Apple has always created and updated bug-fixing versions of its software components,' {348} 7th paragraph; Display (inverted colors) pressing Control-Option-Command-*(asterisk),inverts the colors of the screen Should read: "pressing Control-Option-Command 8" as is illustrated on previous page Figure 9-17 {362}Figure 10-4; The summary balloon illustrated in the book does not contain any notes. The balloon I generate on my computer(Mac OS X version 10.5.2) is the same in every respect except that it does contain whatever note was included in the iCal entry. This finding partially negates the content of the 'Tip' at the bottom of page 364 {383} The last sentence in the "Preview as Graphics Viewer" paragraph.; The sentence reads: "You can even open animated GIFs by adding a play button to the toolbar as described below:" I have searched "below" and I cannot find any reference to adding a play button. The View→Slideshow action does not play animated GIFs. {383-391} Missing PREVIEW feature description; PREVIEW is now a great tool for managing PDF files. You mention NOTES. But it is now possible to COMBINE various files [JPG, PDF, TIFF etc.] MOVE pages from place to place ADD, DELETE pages from PDF files and save the result as a new PDF file. Again: Take any PDF file, rearrange the pages, add, delete and save. Who needs Acrobat? {430} Top of Page; Discussion on types of CDs & DVDs fails to mention DVD+R capability of current Macs {432} FAQ Box; This isn't an error report but an addtitional tip to this section entitled "The Eject Button that Doesn't" I had a disk error message tying to load Windows onto my iMac 7.1. I was stuck with a black screen telling me I had a disk error and the Windows XP CD stuck in the drive, which is a side slot loading one, not a drawer type. The suggestions in this box were unsuccessful (They seem to be aimed more at the drawer type of drive) and there is no pinhole I could discover to attack with a paper clip. Apple Care had the following very successful suggestion: Power down the iMac and then restart while holding down the F12 key until the disk pops out, which it did. {439} Beginning paragraph in box; The instructions for burning a multisession CD-R state that they also apply to DVD-Rs, too. From what I can gather from Apple Discussions and Disk Utility Help, this is false. OS 10 does not allow multisession burning of DVD-Rs. {479} Power users clinic; the item on moving your home folder still has a reference to netinfo manager presumably from the previous edition of this book. Netinfo manager has disappeared from Leopard, so this is rather confusing. [486] FAQ Box; The section covers how to put an iTunes Library into the Shared folder so other Users can have access to the library Either iTunes has changed OR some additional steps need to be defined When I (the administrator) move the iTunes Library to the Shared folder I can still open that library from my administrator. However, in one of the other User Accounts I am unable to access the library. It doesn' show as a 'shared' library and if I try to use the Option start of iTunes the opening fails for failure of Write permissions. I can get 'sharing' to work from the Preferences / Sharing but the music is only visible when the original User has iTunes running What was missed in the paragraph? Or what is the new procedure (515) last paragraph; Surely, Shared Folders can include file by draggging it out of this tile The plus button is sterile because it cannot select it, meanwhile. (515) last paragraph; The first column is not Shared Items, but Shared Folders. {531} "Gem in the Rough" Box; You should clarify that if the "Firewall" is turned on (i.e. Allow only essential services), then the firewall denies a network connection to the "WorkGroup". To ensure that the PCs and Macs see each other, set the Mac Firewall to "Allow all incoming traffic" or "Set access for specific services and applications". If the WorkGroup is behind a router with its own hardware firewall, then it is not a problem to turn off the Mac software firewall. See page 494, second bullet. {554} Note at top; You did not make a technical mistake here, but I wanted to offer this suggestion. Your note correctly states that the Address Book feature does not work in Word or Excel. However, you do not have to type in the fax number by hand. There is an easy workaround: 1. Prepare your fax in Word (or Excel) 2. Choose File-->Print... 3. In the Print dialog window, click the Preview button. 4. After Preview launches, choose File-->Print... 5. Select Fax PDF... from the PDF popup menu. You now have access to Apple's Address book and to all the usual fax sending features. It's an easier process than leaving Word, opening Address Book, finding the fax number, copying it, switching back to Word, and pasting the number. (610) Last sentence of note at bottom of page; This error appears in the note at the bottom of the page, which begins "Unix is an entire operating system unto itself." The last sentence of this note directs readers to "Appendix E" for additional Unix resources. The correct reference should be "Appendix D." [820] Boxed grey area, Workaround Workshop; I have a brand new refurbished iMac direct from Apple USA, it shipped with Leopard installed and the Leopard "Up to Date" Upgrade Disk. You suggest performing a clean install of Leopard is need be, the problem is when we try this the following pops up: "Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer" There is no way around it, we refurbished buyers need to buy a new copy of Leopard. I have looked around, no solution so far. I do know your solution offered does not work, checked the Apple forums and others agree.... Solution? I tried to install Leopard as a clean install on my secondary iBook, same no-go as above. (832-3) nowhere; The index lists "Frozen programs, 832-833". If you look on those pages there is no explanation for keyboard control of Force quitting a program with option-command-escape, although that is explained under "Force Quit" on pp. 154-155. If one only looks on 832-33, one might think that the only way out was to force the computer to shut down, rather than just the program. (864)"File Menu" list (continued from p.863); Keystroke combination for "Move to Trash": "Shift-Delete" should be "Command-Delete" (864) edit menu; The correction listed for this page doesn't make sense. It should be Copy, Cut, Paste for command C, X, V (885) 2nd col,"root account"; Un the Index the page number for the reference to "root account" is mistakenly given as 567. It should be 657. (P3.2.1) "Nostalgia Corner" box, 6th paragraph; "As are sult," should be "As a result." (index) missing term; There must be a number of "default" choices one can set in Leopard and its application. I was surprised that the term "default" cannot be found in the index.