TONS of questions

1) I don't have an answer for you

2) This may be a dumb question (particularly since you were able to get your keyboard to connect), but it's the only thing I know to check. Did you set up your mouse through the Bluetooth pane of System Preferences?



3) If you go to the Keyboard & Mouse preferences and click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, you should find this:



Here, if there's not a keyboard shortcut set up already, you can make one yourself.

4) To send files to the Trash, instead of just pressing delete, hold cmd and press delete.

5) OS X doesn't use drive letter names.

 

That's because it's not a bluetooth mouse. It's a wireless USB mouse. It requires the USB dongle for connectivity.

The delete key alone isn't used for deleting files on a Mac. To delete files, either use Cmd-Delete or right-click and "Move to Trash" or simply drag them to your Trash, located on your Dock.

Mac OS X doesn't use drive letters, like Windows. iTunes doesn't look for a drive letter on a Mac. It looks for a path.

 

Oh good call, I didn't even think to check for that. Yeah, OP, not all wireless mice are Bluetooth. Now that I think about it, it'd be kinda weird if a Bluetooth mouse DID come with, as you put it, a "dongle". I actually have a wireless Logitech mouse myself that uses a "dongle".

 

FWIW, a number of the ones marketed towards Windows users used to (say 4-5 years ago), because there were so few Windows computers at that time with internal BT interfaces... at least, my memory is there were sets like this, and then the confusion was whether the USB interface was a true BT interface that could work for other devices and similarly whether the mouse could work with other BT hosts.

 

USB logo: Bluetooth logo:

 

As to your diNovo I would try it with another Mac because that problem sounds like it is faulty. My family owns three of those keyboards none of them ever disconnect.

 

It's worth pointing out to the OP to make sure to use the actual DELETE key (where the "Backspace" key would be on a PC) for the CMD-DELETE function, and not the FRONT delete key. That threw me for a loop when I first got my Mac.

 

LOL And I was equally confused in my first experience using a school PC on Windows 2000. I needed to hit Control-Alt-Delete to login, and Control-Alt-Backspace wasn't working!

 

I've had to to the ctrl-alt-del thing to log in too. Isn't it kind of asinine (to use a Hank Hill word) to make you press a three key combo just to log into the damn machine?