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Simple questions about os x

cool11 said:
Finally I put a password to my account. But the system asks for it only when I do an install of a program. How can I set it to be as user login?
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System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Options

There should be an option here to automatically log in as a user. Disable this, and you should get a login window on boot where you click your user and login with the password.
 
Ι have some folders that contain many videos. Instead of viewing a brief preview on each video separately, is there any way to see all videos with their thumbnails(first frame displayed-static)? I have this option in windows but I do not know if I can do it in finder.
 
cool11 said:
Ι have some folders that contain many videos. Instead of viewing a brief preview on each video separately, is there any way to see all videos with their thumbnails(first frame displayed-static)? I have this option in windows but I do not know if I can do it in finder.
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In Finder, I don't think so -- I don't think the thumbnail preview option that applies to pictures applies to videos. I think the most Mac way of doing this is to use iTunes, which shows you static frame previews by default.
 
cool11 said:
Ι have some folders that contain many videos. Instead of viewing a brief preview on each video separately, is there any way to see all videos with their thumbnails(first frame displayed-static)? I have this option in windows but I do not know if I can do it in finder.
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The easiest way I can think of to do this is to capture the first frame of each video and set that picture as the video file's custom icon. To set a custom icon, open up the image to use as an icon and copy it, then open the Get Info window in Finder for the file to change, select the icon in the upper-left corner, and paste what you just copied.
 
I have an external hard disk that I connect it with usb cable to my macbook pro.
I use it only for backup purposes. I usually have it turned off and I turn it on once in a week.
The problem is that every time I turn it on, spotlight starts indexing it! But I do not want so! It just uses my external disk without any reason. It is just a backup disk, a cloned image of my internal hard disk.
How can I stop spotlight to index external hard disk? I dont thing there is such an option in its properties.
 
cool11 said:
I have an external hard disk that I connect it with usb cable to my macbook pro.
I use it only for backup purposes. I usually have it turned off and I turn it on once in a week.
The problem is that every time I turn it on, spotlight starts indexing it! But I do not want so! It just uses my external disk without any reason. It is just a backup disk, a cloned image of my internal hard disk.
How can I stop spotlight to index external hard disk? I dont thing there is such an option in its properties.
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There's a privacy tab in Spotlight's section of System Preferences. There, you can prevent Spotlight from indexing stuff. Only problem is this: since the drive is a clone, whenever you reboot, the setting is lost. It's HIGHLY annoying, and I've yet to find a good workaround.
 
I work in my mbp using so many windows opened, many applications running etc.
I wonder if there is any way to 'save' somehow all this workspace, and turn off my mbp, and then when I turn it on had it restored.
 
cool11 said:
I work in my mbp using so many windows opened, many applications running etc.
I wonder if there is any way to 'save' somehow all this workspace, and turn off my mbp, and then when I turn it on had it restored.
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Why turn it off?
Just sleep it.
My Powerbook hasn't been shutdown for about 18 months (except for the HD failure). I have restarted it a few times during though.
 
cool11 said:
I work in my mbp using so many windows opened, many applications running etc.
I wonder if there is any way to 'save' somehow all this workspace, and turn off my mbp, and then when I turn it on had it restored.
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I know exactly how you feel - I could use such a feature as well. I read on MacOSRumors (unreliable, I know) that such a feature may be planned for Leopard...
 
Humm, you got some really nice questions there!

Just try to remember that OSX is not Windows and you'll be facing a learning curve in the first few weeks, some things are just different and I bet you'll get used to it in no time.

For instance:

You were asking about the cut feature so "taken for granted" in Microsoft's OS, although it seems kinda stupid that such basic shortcut is lacking in OSX we have to find a way around it.

I don't know if you know what "spring loaded folders" are but it can be quite handy. Let's say you want to move the folder "Work" that is placed in your desktop to your documents folder, instead of thinking about keyboard shortcuts like Cmd + X or opening two Finder windows, just try to drag the folder "Work" over "Mac HD" and stop for a second.... it will open a Finder window with that (don't release the mouse drag), then drag it into your Sidebar over "Documents" and let go of the mouse button, ok, Done! A Cut/Move done in seconds 🙂

If you wanted to nest that folder in a deeper folder just keep dragging on top of folders and they will open up for you, if you wish to cancel hit Esc or (while still dragging) move the mouse cursor off the Finder window.

Guess that was a long explanation but Spring loaded folders is one of the best OSX features IMO, and it's a good example on how you can let go of the Windows way of doing things and start adapting to OSX 🙂

Anyway, hope it helps, best of luck with your Mac!
 
cool11 said:
Nym thanks for your info!
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No prob, just trying to help.

From personal experience, I know that if you come from a Windows background Spring Loaded Folders is not an easy feature to find, all you needed was a tip 🙂

Anyway, always glad to help.
 
Are there in mac os x useless temporary files sitting in hard disk doing nothing?
In windows os there are a lot and it is good to clean the space sometimes.
I wonder if this also happens to mac os x.
 
cool11 said:
Are there in mac os x useless temporary files sitting in hard disk doing nothing?
In windows os there are a lot and it is good to clean the space sometimes.
I wonder if this also happens to mac os x.
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Most are being "cleansed" by something as easy as a restart...

For additional (manual) maintenance, you could try something like OnyX or MainMenu.
 
I run maimenu. It seems very good.
But I cannot decide which tasks to run.
All of them are useful? Most common tasks to run?
 
How can I tell mac to search (airport) to find if there is any wireless network around?
I used istumbler application but it did not showed anything.
How can I do it in mac os x?
 
Does mac os x create/use temporary files that remain in my hard disk after their use?
Do I have to clear something somehow?
 
Although I have set maximum volume to mic (system preferences, sound, mic), when I do a recording using mic, the volume is too low.
I am standing just in front of my mbp, I speak quite loud but the recording is rather low.
Why this happen and how can I fix it through mac os x? Am I doing something wrong?
 
cool11 said:
Although I have set maximum volume to mic (system preferences, sound, mic), when I do a recording using mic, the volume is too low.
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Okay, first, you will note that when you are in that system preferences, setting the mic gain, you will see an input level meter. How high does it go when you talk while that screen is up. With my iBook at maximum gain, and my mouth about 70cm away from my microphone, the louder end of normal speech gets to about 75% and I can easily hit the top of the meter. What happens for you?

Second, with what software are you trying to record?
 
Speaking as normal, my voice occupy about 10 bars from the 15 available.
I tried several applications.
Voice candy, audio recorder, audacity.
Same situation in all of them.
 
I wrote a large dmg to dvd with toast. 4,38 gb.
I selected the 'classic' mac-pc dvd format.
No warning messages appeared in toast.
No errors while burning.

Then I tried to mount this dmg from dvd.
I get this error:

The following disk images failed to mount.
filename.dmg - no mountable file systems.


Why I get this error?
Should I write it to disk with other options in toast?
I do not think it is a faulty disk (tayo yuden). I do not think it exceeded the dvd capacity.

What happened?
 
I used spotlight to search for specific files. Spotlight find them.
Then I wanted to deleted all these files in spotlight window but I could not.
How can I delete these files?
 
cool11 said:
I used spotlight to search for specific files. Spotlight find them.
Then I wanted to deleted all these files in spotlight window but I could not.
How can I delete these files?
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Sorry, I don't have any more suggestions about your microphone issue, but you can delete files from the spotlight window by highlighting them and hitting Cmd-Del, or you can drag them to trash. But, there's a trick: Spotlight searches the trashcan, so they're still visible in the spotlight window. Nonetheless, they're in the trash, and when you empty it, they'll be deleted.
 
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