Can someone please help me, I have recently switched to a mac, primarily because i was fed up with programs fighting for control of my PC, and it was getting a mess, i was told that a mac would streamline all this and simply play my music, deal with my pictures and alow me to browse the internet, leaving my PC to do al the other scrappy things needed in my life, (I E converting files, office stuff etc), the problem is it just hasn't worked out that way, the 2 main problems that have got me here after a long depressing fruitless struggle are:
1. when clicking on a folder within another folder and then returning with the 'back button' on my mouse, the folder i have just visited is not highlighted. why not, there is absolutely no reason why that particular folder cannot be highlighted. this is absolutely infuriating when you have a long list of folders you are looking through for a particular file, I actually have to write down the name of the folder i am looking through, then press 'back' and scrool down the long list until i find it, then click on the one below, write that down and carry on!!!! this is a joke because on a pc it is simply, 'back and one down then open', that can be performed in less than a second, is there no one in the apple HQ who has not spotted this problem??!?!?!?!? please tell me there is a solution.
2. I have some locked files.. these are causing a nightmare, if you try to play locked mp3 files, i tunes says that there is a disc error?!? I'm sorry apple but this is like telling someone who has tried to open the car door without unlocking it that they have broken the car!?!?!?!
I have a long list of photo folders, somewhere there are locked files and i cannot copy or paste from this folder, I have read people settling with cmd i uncheck locked, and i have reluctantly started that very long process, but coupled with problem no. 1 it makes me want to scream. I cannot delete trash because of a locked file in there somewhere too.
It really is like walking into primary school with a scientific calculator, switching from pc to mac, now i think i know where mac users get there arrogance from, they know that there is pc stuff going on that they just wouldnt get!!, its defensive insecurity!!
If you dont belive me read on.
I have a folder in itunes named the clash and a song on it called radio clash, you would think that the itunes might hazard a guess at calling that file the clash, radio clash or just radio clash??? no its called untitled track along with all the other files i so painstakingly renamed many years ago only for a 2007 piece of software to ignore!!
Cover flow, great idea, where is the only part of the computer it cant be used?, the pictures folder in iphoto, doh..
Safari keeps crashing for no good reason and there are media streams that i cannot access.
And what is going on with new progarames? I admit that part of this is because i am new to macs, but really what a mess, i have no idea what file goes where, icons , download file, applications!!! eject, eject a programme?!?! , really it needent be like this!!!
Oh yeh, the disappearing dock, that really took the biscuit.
so to sum up, organizing pictures and music is a nightmare and safari crashes more than IE on XP
Only entourage, word and excel seem to be giving me trouble free computing and oh yeh they are both microsoft, and i thought i hated microsoft!
The sad thing is i am still very happy with my mac, compared to the politics and antivirus issues with the old PC, but i have learned to love the PC too. mixed feelings!!! please help me
1. when clicking on a folder within another folder and then returning with the 'back button' on my mouse, the folder i have just visited is not highlighted. why not, there is absolutely no reason why that particular folder cannot be highlighted. this is absolutely infuriating when you have a long list of folders you are looking through for a particular file, I actually have to write down the name of the folder i am looking through, then press 'back' and scrool down the long list until i find it, then click on the one below, write that down and carry on!!!! this is a joke because on a pc it is simply, 'back and one down then open', that can be performed in less than a second, is there no one in the apple HQ who has not spotted this problem??!?!?!?!? please tell me there is a solution.
2. I have some locked files.. these are causing a nightmare, if you try to play locked mp3 files, i tunes says that there is a disc error?!? I'm sorry apple but this is like telling someone who has tried to open the car door without unlocking it that they have broken the car!?!?!?!
I have a long list of photo folders, somewhere there are locked files and i cannot copy or paste from this folder, I have read people settling with cmd i uncheck locked, and i have reluctantly started that very long process, but coupled with problem no. 1 it makes me want to scream. I cannot delete trash because of a locked file in there somewhere too.
It really is like walking into primary school with a scientific calculator, switching from pc to mac, now i think i know where mac users get there arrogance from, they know that there is pc stuff going on that they just wouldnt get!!, its defensive insecurity!!
If you dont belive me read on.
I have a folder in itunes named the clash and a song on it called radio clash, you would think that the itunes might hazard a guess at calling that file the clash, radio clash or just radio clash??? no its called untitled track along with all the other files i so painstakingly renamed many years ago only for a 2007 piece of software to ignore!!
Cover flow, great idea, where is the only part of the computer it cant be used?, the pictures folder in iphoto, doh..
Safari keeps crashing for no good reason and there are media streams that i cannot access.
And what is going on with new progarames? I admit that part of this is because i am new to macs, but really what a mess, i have no idea what file goes where, icons , download file, applications!!! eject, eject a programme?!?! , really it needent be like this!!!
Oh yeh, the disappearing dock, that really took the biscuit.
so to sum up, organizing pictures and music is a nightmare and safari crashes more than IE on XP
Only entourage, word and excel seem to be giving me trouble free computing and oh yeh they are both microsoft, and i thought i hated microsoft!
The sad thing is i am still very happy with my mac, compared to the politics and antivirus issues with the old PC, but i have learned to love the PC too. mixed feelings!!! please help me