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Apple Releases First Public Beta of macOS Mojave to Public Beta Testers
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And yet time after time people complain about the lack of it. "Give us what we want!" Well, here you go.
macOS can do a "Move" operation in Finder as well.
You always start off with "Copy" (CMD+C), but the result will depend if you do a CMD+V or Opt+CMD+V (the latter will do a move instead of copy).
The copy/move options are present in the right click menu as well - just a right click will offer "Paste" while Opt+right click will offer "Move".
Maybe not for most of the people posting on this forum; but certainly, for some users, it can.
For example, most geriatric users would likely do as well, or better, with an iPad or iPad Pro than a traditional laptop or desktop computer. There are a whole host of issues that those tablets bypass completely. And for those who spend a lot of time typing, there are keyboards and keyboard-cases that cover that contingency.
That's just one use-case that immediately comes to mind. Others are people who do inspection/data gathering in an industrial setting, and in healthcare. In those environments, an iPad becomes a spectacular replacement for a clipboard, where carrying around a traditional laptop, let alone a desktop, is simply too cumbersome.
So, there are 3 use-cases where a well-endowed tablet can easily, and more effectively, replace a traditional computer.
Is it likely people will create software with 200,000 lines of code, or a 200-page screenplay on something like an iPad? Likely not; but there are many, many users who would likely find a tablet would fit their needs as well, or even better than, traditional computer form-factors.
(there may be more posts like the above, but I figured a couple was already enough of an example)
- Stacks
- Greatly enhanced finder (yesssss)
- sidebar 'preview' supports full metadata
- can create a pdf simply by selecting multiple files and right clicking
- quicklook now has full markup support, as well as photo rotation, video trimming, etc, all without having to launch a separate app
- Significantly more robust screenshot functionality
- including the ability to natively screen-cap video
- can screen shot directly into your cut-n-paste buffer
- etc, etc
- Continuity Camera
- Fully integrated across any app that allows you to import photos (eg. mail, twitter, etc). Simple click of a mouse button and your phone wakes in camera mode, you snap the pic, and it's already in your doc. No need to go through all the machinations like we had to pre-Mojave
- Can also use it to auto-scan hard copy using the phone's camera (auto-perspective correct, auto-crop, etc)
- Again, fully integrated across entire system. This is really nice.
- Foundation in place to bring iOS apps to macOS where it makes sense. Richly developed apps in the iOS world can now be brought seamlessly over to macOS (eg. Home (!), News, Stocks, Voice Memos, etc)
- One of my personal favorites: multi-factor auth text messages will be automatically recognized as such, will essentially be auto-populated (with a simple mouse click), and will be 'marked as read' so you don't have an outstanding text notification.
- Group FaceTime
- Significant security/privacy enhancements
- oh, and a customizable dark mode including selectable system wide enhancement colors
Those are just the features I can think of off the top of my head, most of which are more significant than dark mode.
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I realize that now; but I still think it is sub-optimal to do that. Fortunately, it was only a simple spreadsheet that I lost doing a File MOVE in Windows; but it could have just as easily been a few thousand lines of code, or something...
Do you mean fullscreen mode? I think that's one of those "That's not a bug, that's a feature!" things. You can change it back to normal by holding down the option key when pressing the green button. If you're referring to something else with the green button, never mind.
It’s an over 30 year old operating system. There’s only so much they can do to it.
Agreed*
But I can’t tell you how many times bugs are submitted and you get a “the bugs you submitted are fixed with this new build” only to find them still there.
The Mojave isn’t a "vast, empty, lifeless wasteland”. Go there. You’ll find out.
This is something I can attest to. Anytime a "move" goes bad in Windows, there is a high chance that the file in question is now lost to the world. I have suffered through this.
Isn't it COOL when that happens?This is something I can attest to. Anytime a "move" goes bad in Windows, there is a high chance that the file in question is now lost to the world. I have suffered through this.
I don't know if it is still that way; but I wouldn't be at all surprised...
It's sad that's what you think you know about Mojave.
I really don't get what people are b****ing and moaning about. Now that they're on a yearly update cycle, the differences are guaranteed to be less significant. Whatever. It's free, for f*** sake. And dark mode will be awesome—very much looking forward to that.
Besides, as much as I think their macOS hardware line-up is pretty grim, the macOS itself is pretty great, in my experience.
Besides, as much as I think their macOS hardware line-up is pretty grim, the macOS itself is pretty great, in my experience.
People were asking for it, they delivered. But they will keep facing flak one way or the other.
Dark mode is fine as it is for me - I keep my menubar dark only.
Or maybe it is the start of THE RETURN OF METAMORPH X... DUN DUN DUN!!!!!
Totally irrelevant. You can copy the file, check that everything went well, and then remove the original without getting the user involved.