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4 Easy OS X/Finder Questions!
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<blockquote data-quote="Levi" data-source="post: 454691" data-attributes="member: 33973"><p>CMD+O (for Open)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sorry I dunno. Never wanted to change things.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's handy for marking files relating to different projects if you've got more than one thing going on (and don't have time to get everything in nicely nested folders), or to mark different stages of development (like Orange = sent to client, Green = Approved, Red = More work needed, Blue = Completed and ready to archive/delete). Just saves adding cryptic codes to the files name, and makes it quicker to work with. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Don't worry about it now; it's not meant to fill a particular need (or there would be a stand alone app for it), but at some point you'll get to the stage where you want to do a series of things and you'll think "isn't there an easier way of doing this?". Maybe you have 700 ZIP files on a CD and you need them all unzipped... you're not gonna go through and do each one separately. Or you just come back off holiday with 120 photos and you want them all named something a little more helpful than DSC00579.JPG, added to iPhoto, tagged, and put in a "Vacation Photos" album, and email a set to your mates, or upload them to an FTP server. Automater to the rescue. </p><p></p><p>Folder actions are intended to improve your workflow; if you have a specific way of working, then sometimes they can speed things along.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Best way to get into OS X thinking is to try and cut Windows out of your life as much as possible for a few weeks. Once you start to understand it more, you'll enjoy it more, and won't feel you need to boot Windows to do tasks that can be done in OS X (ofcourse, it's always there in an emergency; but if you rely on it too much unnecessarily then you won't get to enjoy OS X, and a Mac seems like a wasted purchase).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levi, post: 454691, member: 33973"] CMD+O (for Open) Sorry I dunno. Never wanted to change things. It's handy for marking files relating to different projects if you've got more than one thing going on (and don't have time to get everything in nicely nested folders), or to mark different stages of development (like Orange = sent to client, Green = Approved, Red = More work needed, Blue = Completed and ready to archive/delete). Just saves adding cryptic codes to the files name, and makes it quicker to work with. Don't worry about it now; it's not meant to fill a particular need (or there would be a stand alone app for it), but at some point you'll get to the stage where you want to do a series of things and you'll think "isn't there an easier way of doing this?". Maybe you have 700 ZIP files on a CD and you need them all unzipped... you're not gonna go through and do each one separately. Or you just come back off holiday with 120 photos and you want them all named something a little more helpful than DSC00579.JPG, added to iPhoto, tagged, and put in a "Vacation Photos" album, and email a set to your mates, or upload them to an FTP server. Automater to the rescue. Folder actions are intended to improve your workflow; if you have a specific way of working, then sometimes they can speed things along. Best way to get into OS X thinking is to try and cut Windows out of your life as much as possible for a few weeks. Once you start to understand it more, you'll enjoy it more, and won't feel you need to boot Windows to do tasks that can be done in OS X (ofcourse, it's always there in an emergency; but if you rely on it too much unnecessarily then you won't get to enjoy OS X, and a Mac seems like a wasted purchase). [/QUOTE]
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