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A Couple Of Things I Need Help With
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<blockquote data-quote="Oneironaut" data-source="post: 1189549" data-attributes="member: 88633"><p>Don't worry about the <strong>Info</strong> window, every file, folder and application will display that when you <strong>select</strong> it (highlight it) and press Command-I. You can always safely close it. It simply displays various details and options available for that file, and will come in handy some other time, but for now you can just close it.</p><p></p><p>The little Stickies icon with the i under it is an <strong>alias</strong> (or shortcut) for Stickies that you accidentally created and named "i". It too can be safely trashed, like any aliases of <strong>applications</strong> (programs) you might create. An alias is just a pointer, not the original application, and you can tell from the little arrow pointing to it, just like "create shortcut" in Windows.</p><p></p><p>As for the other Stickies icon, it looks like you accidentally dragged the application itself out of your Applications folder when you were trying to drag it into the Dock. It landed on your desktop instead. That means you must drag Stickies back into the Applications folder. Then try dragging it from there into position in the Dock at the bottom. </p><p></p><p>If Stickies is already open, right click on it and choose "Keep in Dock". If it says "Remove from Dock" instead, then you've successfully added Stickies to the Dock. (Remember that the Dock icons also represent shortcuts to their respective applications, folders or files, not the actual applications, folders or files themselves.)</p><p></p><p>What I'm guessing happened is you tried to drag the Stickies icon from the Applications folder into the Dock but missed and ended up moving it to the Desktop, where you selected it and accidentally created an alias of it, which you named "i" in the process of trying to open the Info window with Command-I. Does that solve the mystery?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oneironaut, post: 1189549, member: 88633"] Don't worry about the [B]Info[/B] window, every file, folder and application will display that when you [B]select[/B] it (highlight it) and press Command-I. You can always safely close it. It simply displays various details and options available for that file, and will come in handy some other time, but for now you can just close it. The little Stickies icon with the i under it is an [B]alias[/B] (or shortcut) for Stickies that you accidentally created and named "i". It too can be safely trashed, like any aliases of [B]applications[/B] (programs) you might create. An alias is just a pointer, not the original application, and you can tell from the little arrow pointing to it, just like "create shortcut" in Windows. As for the other Stickies icon, it looks like you accidentally dragged the application itself out of your Applications folder when you were trying to drag it into the Dock. It landed on your desktop instead. That means you must drag Stickies back into the Applications folder. Then try dragging it from there into position in the Dock at the bottom. If Stickies is already open, right click on it and choose "Keep in Dock". If it says "Remove from Dock" instead, then you've successfully added Stickies to the Dock. (Remember that the Dock icons also represent shortcuts to their respective applications, folders or files, not the actual applications, folders or files themselves.) What I'm guessing happened is you tried to drag the Stickies icon from the Applications folder into the Dock but missed and ended up moving it to the Desktop, where you selected it and accidentally created an alias of it, which you named "i" in the process of trying to open the Info window with Command-I. Does that solve the mystery? [/QUOTE]
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