tiger02
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That thing is uber fail get.
Is this nerd-speak?
Can you tell a mac to not have bouncing, annoying animated avatars in the dock? I've never been able to figure out how.
OK I lied, not staying out of it. I'm not sure what you're referring to here. There are no avatars in OS X. The things that bounce in the dock are program icons. AFAIK there is no way to turn the bouncing off, but I will take that over Windows giving me no indication that a program is trying to open.
Just so we're all on the same page here, the finder is analogous to windows explorer, not search. Apple's search function is Spotlight, the little magnifying glass in the top right corner of the screen. It works in more or less the same way as google desktop--type your search term and it returns the most likely hit at the top of the list and then a list broken down by category. I am 100% convinced that the preference between the finder and windows explorer is due to familiarity. I wish that OS X had a thumbnail view and wish that windows had column view and would tell me how big my folders are.In my opinion, Finder is at least as big a pain ********** as windows search is, and it also asks you if you want to search for pictures, videos, documents, music, and etc. I don't understand what the criticism of that in Windows is about, when Mac is guilty of the same thing.
Windows is the same of course--if you don't know how it's organized, you're going to have trouble finding stuff. For instance, I grew up with macs. I had no idea that 'program files' in windows included applications. Then I couldn't understand why windows wouldn't let me look inside that folder without warning me. Then I had to sort through hundreds of files and pick which of the 3 or 4 .exes was actually the correct program and not the uninstaller or an assistant. Again, not sure what you mean by the same thing in "dozens of different locations." There are three or four different finder view options, but that's no different from windows. Do you have an example? The only thing I can think of is that if you're tagging your stuff with keywords, but then you're giving up the filing cabinet metaphor anyway and shouldn't be too worried.The problem I have with finder is that it assumes that you are familiar with the OS-whatever file hierarchy - which has never made any sense to me at all. How can the same file be in dozens of different locations at once without being a duplicate or copy? Can someone PLEASE explain that to me? WTF kind of perverted logic comes up with these ideas?