What is your Mac OCD?

[Lostanddamned]

• Nothing on the desktop (at all, not even hard drives)
• Empty Trash at all times, something gets deleted - the Trash gets emptied.
• 2D Dock, customised to have no background
• No colours in the menubar
• Only active "useful" apps open
• Only the very most useful apps in dock - currently 11 items
• Any really ugly icons get changed (sorry adium, but that duck is just...)
• Spaces do specific tasks - Space 1 media, Space 2 Firefox, Space 3 Adium, iCal & Mail, Space 4 Office & Appescript, Space 5 Finder & Preview, Space 6 µtorrent, GIMP or other rarely used apps.
• iTunes must have all correct artwork, song names, limited to 17 genres
• MacBook and iPhone/iPod must be kept polished up nicely with iKlear
• When typing I try and always have the correct capitalisation of Apple products.
• Would choose an Apple produced accessory for my MacBook over a non Apple product
• Universally have to have the same wallpaper, it just looks damn good (and the "expansion" means it works on dual monitors too)
• My MacBook sleeps next to me and on weekdays wakes me up with music and the news

It really annoys me that in OSX you can't create a properly unified theme, due to the way iCal works, as I really want my PC and my mac to have the same appearance (see attached shots - attached due to not wanting to have a horizontal scroll bar of death...) I'd really like to make my MacBooks desktop match the PC one.

 

[bobr1952]

Get more RAM

Sad to say but even if I had 100GB of RAM I would still keep unused apps closed.

 

[vansouza]

Get more RAM

My iMac already has 4 gigs..

 

[vansouza]

Clean desktop and clean hardware. Also regular maintenance...at least once a week

How do you hide drive icons?

 

[matthewscott661]

-i only have things open or selected when they are in use
-i use hot corners religiously
-everything has a space assigned
-the dock has to be the same width as the screen hinge
-filenames never have spaces
-the trash is ALWAYS empty
-the only things allowed on the desktop are drives/ removable media
-i always clear the download list after it completes
-if i'm doing anything full-screen, that can be the only app running(unless it's a download)
-i run macjanitor every day at noon
-i change my desktop background every couple of days

there's probably more

do i win?

 

[rerelease]

I try to have as little apps running together as possible because I dislike too many dots next to the icons in Dock.

I quit programs with non-blue dock icons as soon as possible so they wouldn't ruin the nice look.

I never place an icon on the task bar unless it's black and transparent only.

If I have nothing better to do, I exposé my windows loads of times and watch it catch up to the lag. I also use the different system animations while holding SHIFT (e.g. minimize, exposé, tab pulling in Safari, stacks) to see them in beautiful slow motion.

I guess there's something else that I can't recall or haven't even noticed myself yet.

 

[mossme89]

Not sure if this counts as Mac OCD, but on my iPod touch whenever I am done using safari, I always open a blank window and close out my old one so that the "untitled" screen is up. That way I feel I can "start fresh" when surfing the next time

 

[avediswolf]

Those for me.

And I also align small windows (like Adium or iChat) so that there's a 1px-line between them and they have the same size (when it's possible). Beat that

Me Too!!

I thought I was the only sicko in the world. LOL.

 

[CristobalHuet]

I have these little things that I have to do when I'm on my computer. Two main ones that I can think of are...

-Whenever I leave the computer I have to click the desktop so it says "Finder" in the menu bar. I can't stand having everything closed but still have the last open window's application name in the menu bar.

-I can't have a file selected and not in use. Like If I drag a file from the desktop into iTunes, once I drop it into iTunes it is still selected on the desktop (this for me is the worse thing about leopard), so I have to click on the desktop and then click anywhere on the desktop again for it to become "un-selected".

Any of you guys have some "Mac OCD's"?

Yes, those two are part of my OCD's as well!

Also, my Mighty Mouse HAS to be centered on my Mousepad.

 

[5DollaFootlong]

keep my desktop spotless. i always repair permissions just to make sure everything is working (most of the time there are no permissions to repair ) oragnize my dock by color ex: itunes safari ichat mail and microsoft word go on the left, whereas hulu, appzapper, dreamweaver, and other green apps go on the right.

 

[268144]

How do you hide drive icons?

Finder > Preferences

 

[mrboult]

Just found this aging thread. SO funny!

So glad I'm not the only one like this!

Didn't bother reading all because it gets repetitive but I laughed a lot, and share many of these OCD tendencies when using my macs.


Did have to laugh at some, which seem ridiculous even to me. . . .

"The cursor must be in the middle of the screen before sleep"
"The calculator must be selected before leaving dashboard"
"Sleep MUST be activated with the remote"

Hehe heehehe. . .

 

[Adam0306]

I have these little things that I have to do when I'm on my computer. Two main ones that I can think of are...

-Whenever I leave the computer I have to click the desktop so it says "Finder" in the menu bar. I can't stand having everything closed but still have the last open window's application name in the menu bar.

-I can't have a file selected and not in use. Like If I drag a file from the desktop into iTunes, once I drop it into iTunes it is still selected on the desktop (this for me is the worse thing about leopard), so I have to click on the desktop and then click anywhere on the desktop again for it to become "un-selected".

Any of you guys have some "Mac OCD's"?

You've got it! Those are the exact ones I would list.

 

[daneoni]

-I also do the Finder thing
-My desktop must also always be clean. No icons whatsoever.
-Folders must be logically labelled
-All UB apps must be trimmed and all languages except english removed
-Repair permissions after every new software update/installation
-Safari's window has to be the same width as my dock (even this is weird to me but i keep doing it)

Oh and my mac has to be cleaned once/twice every other week. I hate macs that are grubby/filthy which is why i refrain from using other people's computers.