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Don't tell me I can't do this in OS X !

benpatient said:
funny, i could swear i had to type a pathname into safari to get to https://forums.macrumors.com

Did your mac come pre-loaded with links to every website you want to visit? or when you want to get to a new site that you don't have a bookmark for, do you have to play a game of "find the link i want on a page i have a link to already"? amazing.
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That's a domain name, not a path name. Lay off the snark. :rolleyes:
 
benpatient said:
that's nothing.

you can also open multiple files from an "open" dialog box in Windows.

Or, you can right-click on a file inside an open/save/attach dialog box and rename/copy/move/paste or otherwise manipulate that file without ever leaving the dialog box.
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Very true, OS X open dialog box has no right-click functionality on individual files or folders. A waste IMO. Very often, I want to rename a file right before uploading to MediaFire.
 
bogman12 said:
Okay so I have a finder window open and I've browsed to a folder where I've just created a zip file of the contents in that folder.

Now I want to upload that zip file to mediafire.com I click browse from the mediafire page and another finder window pops up so I can select the file to upload. This is where it gets frustrating:

In Windows, I can simply copy the absolute path of the folder where the zip file was created (folder is already open in the background) and paste it into the newly opened prompt window and then choose the zip file that exist there and click open. I'm now done.

In OS X, when the new Finder window pops, I have to browse manually to the zip file, and this especially gets frustrating when the folder is buried deep. Is there any reason why I can't EASILY grab the path of a finder window that's already open and paste that path somewhere else? In other words, There is NO way it seems to type a path to a folder in OS X Finder. You HAVE to freakin' click around for everything!

Does Apple think we're stupid and would always prefer the point n' click?

Oh and I also hate how after updating a file in an application, the file's modify date in finder doesn't get updated until I click on that Finder window.. wtf!?
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There is another way to do this in OS X, that's almost even easier than copying the path.

You open the dialog for finding the file and then you simply drag the file to the right part of that window. The open dialog will switch to the folder where the file is located and you can upload it. It's easy as pie, but I think it took me a while to figure it out.

I hope this helps ;)
 
bogman12 said:
In the real world where there are budget and resource constraints, all websites will be build to IE's interpretation of the web standards, then comes FireFox and so on.. Safari is low in the pecking order, but climbing.
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This is so wrong.

Standards are just that, and should be used as such.

yellow said:
This statement disgusts me and is typical of one thing that is wrong in the web (development) community.
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Well said. Why have standards if you are not going to follow them.

scaredpoet said:
IE's interpretation of web standards has nothing to do with budget and resource constraints. I know because I work in a budget constrained environment with a limited staff, and we develop web apps. The easiest, most cost-effective way to develop is to be standards-compliant, NOT functional to ie-only.

Then, it shouldn't matter what browser someone is using or whether it's the "dominant" browser or some obscure contraption. If it is standards-complaint, it will work. That's generally the embodiment of what it is to have a standard.

And for the record, our apps, which are tested against those standards, and work quite well on ie 7, Firefox and Safari 3. Imagine that.
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Yep, imagine that. :)
 
bogman12 said:
Very true, OS X open dialog box has no right-click functionality on individual files or folders. A waste IMO. Very often, I want to rename a file right before uploading to MediaFire.
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Agreed. There are more things that could be added to the contextual menu's basic functionality (like choosing what shows up and in what order), but since the right click is still not a "standard" in OS X, that implementation is kind of an afterthought.
 
kkat69 said:
What's even more tiresome (and this coming from a long time windows user) is that some people won't even take the time to read up on the way to do things, google their question (which most of the time can answer the question), or take the time to play around and learn. Then instead of asking a question if still lost, would much rather post a hateful "OSX Sucks if I can't do this, cuz I can do this in Windoze" and post all the task gripes which actually makes them look more foolish more times than not.



This is the concept I think most switchers can't grasp.

My wife is a recent switcher and very computer illiterate. She's more prone to b!tching about how something worked this way in windows and how she can't do the same in OSX but she actually took the time to learn and went "Oh wow! that's so much easier", or "Hmm, that's a nice feature, that's better than this/that." Point being, she hasn't complained about this or that, but rather try to look it up, then come to me "I'm having a hard time doing this, I used to be able to do this, what's the equivilant on my MB" and I would gladly show her.

She did one time say "This sucks, I can't even do that" which I replied "Sure you can and it's easier", she said "How?" and I told her flat out "Google it if your gonna b!tch about it"
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I'm sorry but this is Mac snobbery of the worst kind. Tell the guy the Mac way of doing it, and leave it there. If you really think he is too lazy, then ignore his question. Why feel the need to preach?

There are some great suggestions in here, and I fully appreciate that there are features of a particular OS that you can miss when you switch, and the good news is that the mac normally offers even better alternatives (I'm a spotlight guy, love it).

Personally I love seeing all these switchers... bring on the questions I like nothing more talking about the great tricks in Mac OS.

Bug
 
For sure mac os was built to only show people what they needed to see.


Now that macs are becoming more than a webtv of comps.. and since i use a MBP now, having a true text path bar on the top of finder windows would be great.

I guess i have always been a fan of text based games, keyboard shortcuts, and right clicking. IMO CoverFlow is a piece of time wasting garbage, they should have saved their time and put in a real path bar as an option instead.


Not a windows fanboy by any-means, but osx is deff crippled in some ways to make it more "user friendly"

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I still dont understand why people dont pay the $15 a year or less for a real ftp.
 
Here's one I didn't know until recently: to get an open Finder window's path into an Open or Save dialog, drag the icon from the top of the Finder window into the space where you normally type the name. Nice, but not entirely intuitive (for me anyway!).
 
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