Hi, In my experience I found that you can open and collapse folders like tree views in list view too. Also for getting a list of useful navigation commands in finder go to the >go menu> by pressing vo m and pressing right to go to the go menu. Press down arrow and you will find a list of interesting commands.
Have fun, Ioana On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Garth Humphreys wrote: > Hi David > > As another new user to the Mac I can certainly understand your frustration. > The Safari busy busy thing is seriously annoying. Stronger words would, of > course, be called for if we weren't in polite company :) > > As for Finder, at first I called it Loser as I couldn't use it to find a > thing. Now however after about 3 weeks it seems completely fine and I can be > just as efficient in it as on Win 7 / XP. I pretty much ignore the side bar. > It can be useful however the key board shortcuts seem quicker to me. As > someone else has said try using column view. Command+3 will get you into this > view. When in this view you can navigate through folders in a standard tree > structure. You need to make sure you have quick nab off. The up & down arrows > will take through the folders at a given level and the left and right arrows > can be used to collapse and expand folders. Combine this with some keyboard > shortcuts and all is good, at least in my opinion. > Command+shift+C will take you to the top computer level where you can see the > various drives and network. > Command+shift+H will take you to your home folder, i.e., inside the users > folder. > Command+shift+A will take you to your Applications folder. > Command+Option+L will take you into your downloads folder. I'm not sure but > maybe this is supposed to be the exception that proves the rule :) > Command+shift+O will take you to your documents > Command+shift+D will go to your desktop. > > There are of course others as well. > > anyway I hope this helps a bit. You certainly aren't alone with your > frustrations. I am still glad I have windows at work where I need to get work > done. > So far I haven't found Safari on the Mac as good as it is on IOS, especially > on the iPad where I think it is fantastic. Then again I got my iPad 1 on the > day it was first released and I have only been using OSX for a few weeks. > > Good luck > Garth > > On 05/10/2011, at 6:32 AM, David Eagle wrote: > >> Hi, here we go again. Every time I switch on my Mac I take a deep >> breath. I think about all the amazing reviews I’ve read about these >> computers and assume that perhaps, this time, I will finally have a >> really positive experience. Today’s task was uploading something to >> sendspace. Things started off so well. Sendspace.com loaded no >> problem; I found the select file button no problem/ when I clicked on >> it, I got a window opening for me to choose my file. I’m not saying >> this is the fault of the Mac; it’s probably me and my stubbornness >> after years of using windows, but it took me ages to find the file I >> wanted. Did I have to interact with the sidebar or the thing that was >> called list. There was also a popup menu with a folder selected. >> Choices choices. After a few minutes of pressing buttons I found the >> file. The process seemed to have some level of cohesion to it, but I’m >> not sure what exactly it was. I’m sure it’s very clever and much >> simpler than the windows way of doing things. In windows I could have >> found my file in three seconds, rather than four minutes. >> >> Anyway, I accept that this is probably just something I need to learn >> and practise. Fine. I found my file and went to upload. I pressed the >> upload button and I got: “Safari busy. Busy. Busy. Busy”. After a half >> a minute I eventually heard “safari, ready”. Hurrah, I can finally >> check to see if my file is uploading. I pressed VO right arrow and >> heard to my dismay “Safari busy. Busy. Busy”. I quit safari and tried >> again. But I got the same problem. Yet again I shut down my Mac and >> booted up my windows machine. Within two minutes my file was happily >> uploading to send space. While it uploaded I checked my emails using >> another instance of Internet explorer. The file has now finished >> uploading and I am going to email it to my friends. Windows hasn’t >> said “busy” at me once. And what really gets me about this is that the >> netbook cost £150 and I’m using the free screen reader NVDA. >> >> How is it possible? I really want to know. I’ve got way more am than >> my windows machine, and my Mac cost fifteen times more than my >> netbook. How come I have to keep turning off my Mac and turning on my >> windows machine? The mac looks great; it’s fast; it’s really quiet – >> very little fan noise. But it can’t do things. It’s ten times faster >> than my windows computer, but that only means it can do much more to >> annoy me in a far shorter period of time than my windows computer. >> >> I want to join the Mac party. You all seem so elated by your Macs. Is >> there a magic button to press that starts making it behave. I know I’m >> ranting again but surely you can see my point. Is my experience so >> anomalous? I read about all these people who say they bought a Mac and >> now never use windows. But if I didn’t have a windows computer then >> I’d achieve nothing. >> >> I know this isn’t’ VO specific. I know it may even annoy some of you. >> I know it’s not a particularly productive email. But if you do find >> this email to be annoying and unproductive, think of it as a metaphor >> for my general experience with the Mac. I feel as if I am the odd one >> out, and I am waiting for the day that I am castigated from this list >> for being “too PC”. O what irony. I hope you all enjoyed my hilarious >> ending joke. I’m so sorry for ranting. I feel like an idiot. Please, >> treat me like one. Tell me how I get the Mac to do the fundamental >> element of a computer. That is: to compute! Because I am going to end >> up not bothering to turn this machine on, which is such a shame >> because it should be a great computer? Apparently. >> >> I’m sure I’ll get there, and I promise, if I do, I’ll be singing the >> Mac’s praises. >> Thanks to everyone for being so patient and understanding. >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.davideagle.co.uk >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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