Errata for OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual
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| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
| PDF |
Page ix
last line on page |
The table of contents (the one printed within the book) does not match the text.
The difficulties start on the table of contents entry "Reminders, Notes & Notification Center", shown in the TOC as the final topic treated in Chapter 9. The TOC link takes you the correct subject matter, now comprising all of a new Chapter 10 in the body of the book. The next TOC link (for Chapter 10) and all subsequent TOC links similarly take you to the title page until you get to the TOC link for Chapter 11 (Chapter 12 in the printed text because of the insertion of the newly created Chapter 10) at which point links again work.
The problem reappears with the TOC entries for all of Chapter 20 (Chapter 21 in the body of the book) - TOC links again take you to the title page. Once you get to the Appendixes links begin working again.
This behavior was observed in both the Kindle application and Adobe Reader on my Mac OS X iMac. The "Contents" panel/sidewbar in the Kindle app misbehaves similarly.
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012. |
Anonymous |
Jul 31, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| Other Digital Version |
Appendix D - Managing Programs
United States |
In the Kindle edition:
Appendix D under Managing Programs, the shortcut for saving the screen:
"Shift-⌘-3 Captures the screen image as a PDF file on your desktop
Pogue, David (2012-08-09). OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual (Kindle Locations 26646-26647). OReilly Media - A. Kindle Edition."
This shortcut actually saves the screen to the desktop as a .PNG file. Subsequent viewing of it in Preview allows it to be printed as a .PDF file in the Print Dialog box.
Another terrific job you people !!! Keep up the great work.
Regards,
Bob
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012. |
Bob Ruthrauff |
Aug 14, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| Safari Books Online |
1
5st paragraph in the side note |
Don't have info about page numbers in Safari Books Online - please ignore this field.
Two. Programs in OS X > 5. Documents, Programs & Spaces > The Mac App Store > UP TO SPEED: CLASSIC AND ROSETTA, RIP:
"...software companies never upated them for Intel ..." -> "...software companies never updated them for Intel ..."
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012. |
Gundars.Alksnis |
Aug 18, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| PDF |
Page 6
Gestures bullet point |
Text says "Appendix E contains a handy chart of
all Lion gestures";
should be "Mountain Lion gestures"
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012. |
blairphillips |
Jul 27, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| Printed |
Page 6
2nd paragraph Gestures bullet point |
Text says "Appendix E contains a handy chart of
all Lion gestures";
should be "Mountain Lion gestures"
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012.
There is no Appendix E in July 2012 print edition, therefore no handy chart of anything.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Paul So |
Feb 28, 2013 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 10
Paragraph below 'Tip:' |
Reference to 'see page 164xx' should have the xx removed.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in earlier reprint |
Eric Jensen |
Oct 11, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 12
5th paragraph "Note:" |
August 2012: Second Printing - The text references "... if your handy inTerminal (page 469).", however "Terminal" is on page 470.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Eric Jensen |
Oct 01, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| PDF |
Page 13
Numbered paragraph 5, 3rd paragraph underneath |
Last line, "For the full rundown, jump to page xx173." The "xx" should not be there.
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012. |
Wayne Davis |
Aug 01, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| Printed |
Page 13
#2 |
#2 reads "Find Calculator".
#3 reads "Click to open Calendar...."
Recommend changing Calculator to Calendar.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in earlier printing |
Grant Carroll |
Dec 21, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 47, 49, 56, 58
Figure 1-17, 1-18, 1-22 and 1-23 |
Figure 1-17, 1-18, 1-22 and 1-23 'View' do not have the correct button highlighted for the View being described.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Eric Jensen |
Oct 10, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 50
'Tip:' near the bottom of page |
Reference to 'page 53' should be referenced to page 52.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Eric Jensen |
Oct 10, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 64
Second sentence of 'Tip:' at bottom of page. |
The second sentence reads 'cutting it off fromtthe world.' Replace the first 't' with a space.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Eric Jensen |
Oct 12, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| PDF |
Page 64
Bottom of page Tip, second sentence |
Beginning of line reads "cutting it off fromtthe world" should read "cutting it off from the world"--replace first "t" with a space.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Wayne Davis |
Nov 26, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 65
End of last sentence on page. |
The statement 'and turn off "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps."' I believe should read 'and turn on "Close windows when quitting an application"'.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Eric Jensen |
Oct 12, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 82
Last paragraph in window at bottom of page. |
The reference to '...Using Disk Utility (page 455) saves...' should refer to page 456.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Eric Jensen |
Oct 12, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 120
Workaroung workshop at the bottom of the page |
The text within the workaround workshop flows around an image in the middle. Unfortunately, the first line of text "spills over" the top of the image, and the words "en masse." hang above the image, making it hard to work out where they should actually be. Are they part of the first sentence on the left, the end of the last sentence on the left column, or part of the right hand column?
It is obviously possible to work it out, but it makes understanding a bit confusing.
Great book by the way :)
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in previous printing |
Peter Cattell |
Oct 30, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 141
End of first sentence at top of page. |
Keyboard control of the Dock references page 212. I believe the reference should be to "Control the Dock" on page 210.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Eric Jensen |
Oct 28, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 181
8th (I believe - it's the section titled Deleting a Desktop) |
The book states that to delete a desktop (Spaces), you enter Mission Control and point to one of the screen thumbnails without clicking until a - (a minus sign) appears in its corner and then you click on it. What actually occurs is that when you enter Mission Control, the screen thumbnails (labeled Dashboard, Desktop 1, Desktop 2, etc.) will have an X in a circle in the upper left corner of the thumbnail. You click on the X in this circle to delete the desktop. Note that you cannot delete the two default desktop labeled Dashboard and Desktop 1. No X in a circle appears if you move the cursor over these default thumbnails.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Ernest Long |
Sep 16, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 181
3rd paragraph from bottom |
The book says that to delete a desktop in Mission Control, point to a screen thumbnail until a "-" appears. I can't get this to happen. Should it be until an "x" appears?
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Anonymous |
Nov 15, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 197
End of 3rd paragraph in "Troubleshooting Moment" window. |
Not sure what the "launc" refers to in "Details on the Fn key appear on page 237launc,)".
Note from the Author or Editor:
thanks |
Eric Jensen |
Nov 25, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed, PDF |
Page 222
3rd paragraph |
Regarding the Save As command, the book states:
"There’s no Save As command anymore in these programs."
Yet one of the new features of Mountain Lion was the restoration of the Save As command, the functionality of which was ultimately perfected in 10.8.2.
The existing paragraph is applicable to Lion, not Mountain Lion, and that paragraph is the only mention of Save As in the entire book.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Anonymous |
Oct 11, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 252
Note at bottom of page |
It says "22" system localizations, but Mountain Lion has 30 per the tech specs:
http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012. |
Tom Gewecke |
Aug 26, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| Printed |
Page 252
Second line of text in Figure 6-7 |
It says "22" system localizations, but Mountain Lion has 30 per the tech specs:
http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012. |
Tom Gewecke |
Aug 26, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| Printed |
Page 324
Up To Speed Block on bottom half of page |
The section states that bootcamp has an option to remove a Windows partition. On Mountain Lion, this is simply WRONG. The menu displays no such option.
I also called Apple support. Their solution is brute force: Back up your Mac, reformat your hard drive, and reinstall Mountain Lion.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
P Büchler |
Nov 24, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| PDF |
Page 354
United States |
The "Tip" says "The standard video card in a Mac Pro has jacks for two monitors." Maybe not all of them, because my Mac Pro has only one place to plug in a monitor. I have an early 2009 Mac Pro with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB graphics card. I believe that was standard when I purchased it.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Anonymous |
Dec 21, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 360
general settings |
You mention early on the ability to minimize a window by clicking anywhere in the title bar of an open window.
You also mention that this can be changed in system settings - general.
I can find no setting for this and no mention of it in the system settings - general section of the book.
Can you clarify/correct please.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Mark |
Jan 23, 2013 |
May 10, 2013 |
| PDF |
Page 390
First paragraph |
Problem 1: This text says Address Book/Contacts is described in Chapter 10. It is not. It is in Chapter 17
Problem 2: the chapter heading footers for Chapters 10 and 17 each contain strange characters. E.g. "Chapter 18: Mail2 & contacts" (The 2 is raised as in Mail squared.)
Problem 3: The chapter numbers in the Table of Contents are wrong. (The TOC numbers are one less than the actual chapter numbers.)
Problem 4. Why was this book not issued in epub format like OSX Lion Missing Manual. The PDF format is much more difficult to use
In short, I have found the Missing Manuals to be very useful, but if this is an example of your current level of quality control, and if you are not publishing in epub, I doubt that I will be continuing to use them in the future.
Perhaps all this is because you rushed the final production. If that is the case, you certainly should post a corrected epub version and notify those of us who made the mistake of purchasing early.
Note from the Author or Editor:
Page reference: Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012.
The other problems were fixed in the free PDF update offered to all buyers. |
Anonymous |
Jul 29, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| Printed |
Page 409
Dictionary section |
Fails to mention the new dictionaries added in Mountain Lion for Spanish, German, and Chinese.
|
Tom Gewecke |
Aug 26, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 409
Dictionary Section |
Fails to mention the new dictionaries added in Mountain Lion for French, Spanish, German, and Chinese.
(This updates my errata report of 8/26/12 to take account of another dictionary added in 10.8.2)
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Tom Gewecke |
Sep 27, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 507
2nd bullet point, Apple ID |
Page 142 noted should be page 412
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Anonymous |
Feb 01, 2013 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 531
"Figure 13-10" |
Figure reference should be: "Figure 13-15".
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Thomas ROBB |
Mar 17, 2013 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 655
1st paragraph |
mentions page 142 Should be page 412.
THE APPLE ID BOX REFERENCE
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Anonymous |
Oct 01, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| PDF, ePub |
Page 657
Documents and Data paragraph |
The paragraph says details about Documents and Data are found on Page 255, they are not. More details are found on 225.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Shirley Allan |
Jan 09, 2013 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Printed |
Page 669
Top |
Mail in Mountain Lion does not provide an option to import data from Microsoft Entourage.
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Anonymous |
Apr 25, 2013 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Other Digital Version |
739
Introdution: The Mac Becomes an iPad, 7th paragraph |
Kindle Edition - page number is actually location number.
"Instead, you use all those same iPad gestures and more, right on the surface of your laptop trackpad or (if you have Apple’s Magic Mouse) the top surface of the mouse."
This sentence is correct but incomplete. I'm reading the book on my 24" iMac, mid-2007 edition, where I can do all of the gestures on my Apple Magic Trackpad. Mention of this is important, since it makes the full power of Mountain Lion gestures available even to older desktop machines.
http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/
Thanks!
Lee
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Lee Herman |
Apr 21, 2013 |
May 10, 2013 |
| PDF |
Page 795
4th paragraph "Tip" |
Second line, "plications->Utilities folder, whenit’s": space missing between "when" and "it's".
Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in the second printing, Sep 2012. |
Wayne Davis |
Aug 01, 2012 |
Sep 14, 2012 |
| Printed |
Page 798
Figure A-4 |
Destination should be Mountain Lion not Lion and in left column it should be Mountain Lion Install not Lion Install
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Stan Burech |
Oct 03, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
| Mobi |
Page 3797
Gem in the Rough box |
Many errors in the description of Spotlight Math capabilities:
1. pow(x,y) does not work in Mac OS X 10.8 spotlight
2. Typing "man math" yields the man section on the TCL math library, i.e., math(n). None of the math(n) functions seem to work in spotlight, e.g., fibonacci(5) does not yield a mathematical result. In older versions of OS X, the library math(3) existed (see https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/math.3.html), but this library does not seem to be contained in OS X 10.8. A few of the old math(3) functions work (e.g., log(x), exp(x), sin(x), sinh(x), pi, e), but others do not (e.g., pow(x,y), log2(x), fmod(x,y)).
Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in 4th printing, 5/1/13 |
Anonymous |
Sep 22, 2012 |
May 10, 2013 |
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