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Odd Lack of Mountain Lion Documentation 7 3 (5/11/2013 2:19:45 AM) comp.sys.mac.system With the Finder open there is a panel of options available when one selects "Show View Options" from the "View" menu. That produces a panel of options, one of which is "Use as Defaults". My attempts to figu... TaliesinSoft

Persistant Junk Mail in Mail.app 1 17 (4/23/2013 5:01:59 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I use Mail.app for emaii. Mail.app includes a Bayesian filter which is supposed to "learn" the characteristics of a particular mail designated by me as junk and will eventually automatically move mail with ... TaliesinSoft

Opening Existing Spreadsheet in Numbers 0 4 (4/11/2013 2:47:03 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Until fairly recently, perhaps with the introduction of a newer version of OS X, When I would open Numbers I would receive a panel which allowed me to either choose from a recently opened sheet or to cre... TaliesinSoft

System Preferences - An oddity or a bug? 7 14 (2/25/2013 3:24:20 PM) comp.sys.mac.system In "System Preferences…/Desktop & Screen Saver/Folders" one can place a folder of pictures of desktops of one's choice. If I place a second such folder at that locatiion I can alternate between the two of t... TaliesinSoft

Oddity - Multiple Concurrent Copies of Safari.app 5 8 (2/4/2013 8:55:13 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Frequently I'll have two instances of Safari.app in my dock and two instances in my Recent Items list. I have checked and I have only a single copy of Safari.app in my Applicatioins folder. My understanding... TaliesinSoft

Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together 10 23 (2/4/2013 8:36:25 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Frequently I'll have two instances of Safari.app in my dock and two instances in my Recent Items list. I have checked and I have only a single copy of Safari.app in my Applicatioins folder. My understanding... TaliesinSoft

Parallels Desktop - An Oddity 2 46 (11/3/2012 6:29:36 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I'm using Parallels Desktop (Build 8.0.18314) running on my iMac (OS X 10.8.2). When viewing my account via Finder there are two folders labelled Applications and Applications (Parallels) Opening Applicatio... TaliesinSoft

Windows 8 Via Parallels - Keyboard and Trackpad Mapping 0 101 (11/2/2012 8:33:03 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I'm running Windows 8 under Parallels which in turn is running under OS X 10.8.2. Is there somewhere some charts that show which keys on the Apple wireless keyboard map to Windows 8 and which gestures on th... TaliesinSoft

Loving My Magic Trackpad 108 35 (10/7/2012 4:05:35 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I've had my Magic Trackpad almost from the day they were first available and absolutely, positively, wouldn't think of going back to using a mouse for navigation and selection. I've noted that there are o... TaliesinSoft

Shifting Window Location - An Annoyance 3 45 (9/16/2012 3:48:55 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Here's an example… I'll have Safari open in a window that is centered on my screen both vertically and horizontally. I'll then close Safari and then reopen it. The window is no longer centered. Perhaps I... TaliesinSoft

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Odd Lack of Mountain Lion Documentation 7 3 (5/11/2013 2:19:45 AM) comp.sys.mac.system With the Finder open there is a panel of options available when one selects "Show View Options" from the "View" menu. That produces a panel of options, one of which is "Use as Defaults". My attempts to figu... taliesinsoft966 (907)

The return of 10.8 104 8 (4/27/2013 8:53:15 AM) comp.sys.mac.system ....on my system, anyway. I was on 10.6.8 for the last several months because I really didn't care for the 10.8 front-end. However, as expected, software started to complain about the version, so now I'm ... howard578 (1956)

No New MacSoup 31 14 (4/26/2013 7:11:09 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I can't find any version of MacSoup later than 2.8.3. I emailed Stefan Haller at his advertised address, asking if he had stopped development; the email was rejected by the postmaster because "account s... csampson (72)

More Mac Geniuses w/Keyboard 36 12 (4/18/2013 4:41:35 PM) comp.sys.mac.system "It's dead, Jim", reminds me that the advice at Apple stores can be dicey. I recently went to the Apple store to see what keyboards they had to replace my current beloved Logitech S530 wireless. I had bee... xxx613 (1044)

It's dead, Jim. 287 10 (4/15/2013 12:00:45 AM) comp.sys.mac.system About a year ago, the hard drive on my Time Capsule died, so I bought an external drive for Time Machine backups, and continued to use the Time Capsule as a router. Today, that died. The LED remained yell... michelle14 (18434)

Time Machine Options 26 18 (4/7/2013 12:01:56 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps Just got a new hard drive for back up of my main internal hard drive. But I keep all my audio on another drive and my video on yet another. These two I would like to continue backing up to yet another. ... xxx613 (1044)

Important, The Last Word In Interface Design 16 14 (4/5/2013 10:16:20 PM) comp.sys.mac.system ... fmoore (1309)

Adobe Creative Suite 6.5--When? 23 214 (3/29/2013 4:07:20 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I help out a small library with their Macs. They have a very limited budget. In late November they replaced a PPC G5 tower with a Mac Mini for the graphics workstation and have been trying to run CS4 on it.... fmoore (1309)

Mysterious magnification of OS X desktop 30 19 (3/18/2013 4:56:21 AM) comp.sys.mac.system A friend asked me whether I knew what keys he might accidentally be hitting every so often that would cause everything on his screen to get bigger, even driving the menu bar and dock off the screen. He's usi... patty1 (46)

App Store annoyance 13 18 (3/7/2013 12:27:53 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Recently there was an AppStore update for AirPort Utility (6.2). Since I have no Airport devices I have no need for this update. Or does this update also cover the iMac AirPort (which I rarely use). Th... alan.browne (3815)