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<blockquote data-quote="Oneironaut" data-source="post: 869084" data-attributes="member: 88633"><p>Yeah, the first few times I tried to save something, I was puzzled as to why there were so few choices of where to save it. Then I clicked on the blue arrow to the right of the file name and went "ohhhh"! There were all the file hierarchies. You can navigate through them to save your document wherever you want, and there's also a New Folder button you can use to create new locations.</p><p></p><p>Don't forget that you can click a View button within the Save window to see the file structure as a list, as icons, or as panes. These buttons also appear in the Finder window.</p><p></p><p>The file system isn't too different from the way Windows does things. Just open up a Finder window and you can navigate to and create folders within folders and organize them however you want. The only difference is that the leftmost Places pane lists the locations you're likely to start at: the hard drives, followed by external drives and CD's, followed by the Application folder, your home folder and your Documents folder, etc. (You can also remove and add locations to the Places list.)</p><p></p><p>Don't get confused and think that the Documents folder under Places is different from the one you find when you start navigating from the Macintosh HD into your home folder. The Documents folder that's listed in the Places pane is just a shortcut that lets you jump right to that location rather than navigate to it from the root drive. In other words, it's similar to having a My Documents shortcut in your Windows Start menu instead of opening up My Computer, then Drive C, etc to get to your documents. Same location, two different ways of getting to it. </p><p></p><p>As for the trash, did you try actually opening up the trash to see if that folder was in there, or did you assume that since the folder was still in the dock it wasn't in the trash? If you trash something, the icon will still appear in the Dock until you remove it. </p><p></p><p>Where is your trash now? Its original position is on the far right of the Dock. You shouldn't be able to move it from that spot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oneironaut, post: 869084, member: 88633"] Yeah, the first few times I tried to save something, I was puzzled as to why there were so few choices of where to save it. Then I clicked on the blue arrow to the right of the file name and went "ohhhh"! There were all the file hierarchies. You can navigate through them to save your document wherever you want, and there's also a New Folder button you can use to create new locations. Don't forget that you can click a View button within the Save window to see the file structure as a list, as icons, or as panes. These buttons also appear in the Finder window. The file system isn't too different from the way Windows does things. Just open up a Finder window and you can navigate to and create folders within folders and organize them however you want. The only difference is that the leftmost Places pane lists the locations you're likely to start at: the hard drives, followed by external drives and CD's, followed by the Application folder, your home folder and your Documents folder, etc. (You can also remove and add locations to the Places list.) Don't get confused and think that the Documents folder under Places is different from the one you find when you start navigating from the Macintosh HD into your home folder. The Documents folder that's listed in the Places pane is just a shortcut that lets you jump right to that location rather than navigate to it from the root drive. In other words, it's similar to having a My Documents shortcut in your Windows Start menu instead of opening up My Computer, then Drive C, etc to get to your documents. Same location, two different ways of getting to it. As for the trash, did you try actually opening up the trash to see if that folder was in there, or did you assume that since the folder was still in the dock it wasn't in the trash? If you trash something, the icon will still appear in the Dock until you remove it. Where is your trash now? Its original position is on the far right of the Dock. You shouldn't be able to move it from that spot. [/QUOTE]
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