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macOS Sierra: The Missing Manual

Errata for macOS Sierra: The Missing Manual

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
ePub Location 17240 in e-book

You spend page after page talking about "Top Sites" in Safari. "Top Sites" does not exist in Mac OS Sierra. I have encountered other places in the e-book that give instructions for other things that do not exist anymore. I just ignored them, but the Top Sites error needed to be mentioned. Very poor editing job.

 Anonymous  Nov 06, 2017 
PDF Page 1
in description below

Missing PDF's on web site: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/missingmanuals/macossierramm

Chapter 5: Documents, Programs & Mission Control
Dashboard Widgets (Free PDF Appendix)
Chapter 11: The Free Programs of macOS
Cutting People from Photos with Preview (Free PDF Appendix)

 Joshua Hall  Jan 16, 2017 
Printed Page 18
Tip on the page

In the tip on page 18 it says you can hide the Sidebar by grabbing the edge of it and dragging left, and then to unhide it again by clicking the left edge of the window and dragging right but whenever I click the left edge of the window it just resizes the window. the only way to make the sidebar reappear is using the view menu or the shortcut command unless I'm missing something

 Anonymous  Apr 26, 2017 
PDF Page 249
FIGURE 6-11 Last add on correction

"quick" should be preceded by "a" rather than "an"

 STEVE COHN  Mar 19, 2017 
PDF Page 547
Note: box

The book says "To view the log, open the Applications/ Utilities/Console program. In the left-side list, expand the /private/var/log heading, and click appfirewall.log."

Sierra took away lots of things. Access to /private/var/log appears to be one of them. There is no such heading on the left menu of my Console in 10.12.3.

It would be nice if the book described whether there is a sensible way to use Console for anything. I can't seem to find useful information with it anymore. Crash logs are hard to find. Console now has a two level menu on the left sometimes? Related to the Search box maybe? but how do I control where/what it looks for?

There is a lot of junk in these logs. How big are they anyhow? Do they expand forever without pruning? I see multiple messages logged per second. These logs can't be small. Console doesn't have any preferences so...

Anonymous  May 02, 2017 
ePub Page 2677
3rd Paragraph -- View Tab

Text says :“For example, system files are always hidden on the Mac; you can’t opt to make them visible (at least not with the built-in controls). ” This cited text is in the pub and the Print version.

Actually, you can look at a finder window and type COMMAND-SHIFT-. (COMMAND-SHIFT-PERIOD) and hidden folders and hidden files will show, dimmed, but accessible for mouse clicks depending on permissions and how you are signed on. Click this combination again and the hidden folders/files revert to being hidden.

 mulvey123  Feb 28, 2017