Mac Facts-2
Hello Mac fans, welcome to my second article "Mac Facts 2". Before proceeding,I have to say something, I'm not an expert mac user but i do know something about mac which could be at least a little useful for some beginners as "Macster". This article and other mac-fact articles will be based on my knowledge about mac OS's. The Os I'm using is Mac Os X 10.4.11, where the softwares installed here can also be installed in other mac os versions greater than 10.4.11 and not vice versa. In this article we will see some solutions for some little problems in mac.
Searching For Finder?
Problem: On one fine morning you wake up switch on your mac and open iTunes and start hearing to music and then you want to open a document stored in your "Documents" folder, so you move your cursor to the dock and you were supposed to click the Finder icon, but you were shocked for a moment, because the Finder icon disappeared and you can't open your any "Documents", you can only open the applications on your dock, so what'd you do? Here is the solution...
Solution: The problem is with your Finder Preference file, all you have to do it is simply delete that file, don't worry that file will be created automatically when you login next time, its a temporary file that stores your Finder information.
How To Delete:
1. GoTo Macintosh HD>Users>Your-User-Name>Library>Preferences
2. Find and delete the com.apple.finder.plist file
3. Empty Trash
4. Restart System
5. Problem Solved***
Changing Icons!
What To:
You totally love your mac look, after some days you will feel bored about the mac design, obviously. With all the same blue and gray folder icons, you will lose your artistic nature, you may even wonder how cool it would be if you can change your folder icons like in a PC, and yes! there is way to do that in a really simple way. Let me show you how...
How To:
So goto the folder which you wanted to change the icon. Click on "Get Info" icon on the toolbar or right-click that folder->Get Info. The "Get Info" window will appear.
Now Choose the icon file-> right click->Copy.
Now in the above "Boddunan Music Info" window, you see a little Blue Folder icon on the top left corner, select it, it will get high-lighted.
Goto the Finder Menu Bar->Edit->Paste.
That's how you paste your copied icon file to your folder and change its icon.
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Uninstalling Application In a Mac:
What To:
In windows OS to uninstall a software or any game or any programs you use control panel>Uninstall Programs route, but you cannot apply the same way in a mac os, because you know these two os are totally different, so if you want to remove or uninstall a software/program/game in a mac os you can't remove all the particular softwares system file, temporary file and some other related files, you can remove only what you delete, because of this many unwanted files of deleted programs will be left in your Macintosh HD, the smart way to remove is using an Uninstaller, by default mac os don't come with Uninstallers, you have to download them separately or buy them or create your own automated scripts to do such work. In my case i use "AppDelete" Uninstallers to remove applications, it does a good job.
How To:
All you have to do is Drag & Drop the desired application into the opened AppDelete application and click ok. This application will and can have its icon only near the Trash icon in the dock.
For example i dragged & dropped an application named HyperTankz, if i click ok it will be removed with all the related files, the files will be in the trash. In the next window you will have options to UNDO the removal. Then after that you'll have this window:
You either choose one of the options.
Well, I will see you in my next Mac-Facts article.
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