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- white MacBook - 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 500GB HD iPhone Specs: white 3GS - 32GB
I recently got my Mac, and is my first as I have just switched from Windows. Anyways there a few annoyances that I hope you guys can help me out with:
1: When I browse the internet and a save an image from it, I choose to save the image in the JPEG format onto my hard drive. Once I open the appropriate folder to view those images, they appear to be in a text format and am unable to open them in any application. Any way to fix this? (By the way this is using the Firefox browser, I haven't really used Safari yet)
2: When browsing folders and I want to move a file from one location to another, do I always have to drag the file into another folder? Or is there any way to cut and paste it like in Windows? (Mac only gives me the option to copy and paste...)
3: BIGGEST ANNOYANCE: When I plug in another drive to my machine, e.g. thumb drive, I cannot delete any of the files from that drive. For example, the other day I wanted to free up space on my thumb drive by deleting files on it. To my knowledge, the only way of doing that is moving those files to the trash. So I did just that, and it appears the files have been removed. Not so. Later I plug that thumb drive into my old Windows machine and view all hidden files and folders. Mac created a new folder called ".trashes" where all of my "deleted" data is. So really, no data has been deleted, it's still on the drive, but now simply not accessible as I have not found a way to "view all hidden files and folders" on the Mac. Is there any way to actually delete files?
Overall I still love my new MacBook, but there are some things I'd just like a little different.
1: When I browse the internet and a save an image from it, I choose to save the image in the JPEG format onto my hard drive. Once I open the appropriate folder to view those images, they appear to be in a text format and am unable to open them in any application. Any way to fix this? (By the way this is using the Firefox browser, I haven't really used Safari yet)
2: When browsing folders and I want to move a file from one location to another, do I always have to drag the file into another folder? Or is there any way to cut and paste it like in Windows? (Mac only gives me the option to copy and paste...)
3: BIGGEST ANNOYANCE: When I plug in another drive to my machine, e.g. thumb drive, I cannot delete any of the files from that drive. For example, the other day I wanted to free up space on my thumb drive by deleting files on it. To my knowledge, the only way of doing that is moving those files to the trash. So I did just that, and it appears the files have been removed. Not so. Later I plug that thumb drive into my old Windows machine and view all hidden files and folders. Mac created a new folder called ".trashes" where all of my "deleted" data is. So really, no data has been deleted, it's still on the drive, but now simply not accessible as I have not found a way to "view all hidden files and folders" on the Mac. Is there any way to actually delete files?
Overall I still love my new MacBook, but there are some things I'd just like a little different.