Re: A Question About Finder and Associated Frustrations
- From: George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:08:29 GMT
In article <Px8wf.99647$HU3.96505@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dechah <wrefgwef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a brand new iMac G5 computer (20") with 1GB of factory fitted
> RAM. I also run a PC with Windows XP, 2.8GHz HyperThreaded CPU and 1 GB
> of RAM. I am more skilled at using the PC than I am Macintosh, and
> therefore right clicking on folders and objects to bring down a
> contextual menu feels natural to me.
You have a new iMac and it DIDN'T come with a Mighty Mouse? Well, just
go buy some multi-button USB mouse. They should all work. Microsoft
Intellimouse Exploreres are nice.
>
> I have a couple of frustrations with OS X Tiger that I am not sure are
> glitches in the OS, or incompatibilities between a Windows way of doing
> things and a OS X way.
>
> First Frustration
> _________________
>
> I have a folder that contains 1,930 1MB JPeg images that I would like to
> use as a random wallpaper on my iMac. The trouble is there are about 30
> images in this folder that I would like to remove prior to setting the
> folder as the source folder for the switching desktop. I figured
> Preview would be a great app to do this since prior to this trouble, I
> was routinely selecting say a dozen or so pictures, right clicking on
> them and then selecting the "Open With" contextual menu item to have the
> images open in Preview. I can then open the Drawer in Preview and
> easily use the down arrow on the keyboard to quickly jump through he
> list of images. Every time I try to do this with the large 1,930
> picture holding folder, Finder crashes. I can do this easily on my PC
> using the same folder, but the iMac can't.
Preview is not the right way. it shows one picture at a time. Try
importing them into iPhoto: iPhoto/File menu: "Add to Library"
(Command-O) point iPhoto to the folder containing all the photos and hit
the "import" button. After all the pictures are in iPhoto go to the dock
and select "System Preferences" (the icon that looks like a light switch
with an Apple logo next to it), and on the first row, select "Desktop
and Screen Saver." In that control panel you can select "stretch to fill
screen" and then in the list, scroll down to iPhoto and pick the
"Library" Icon, then at the bottom of the Control Panel click on "Change
Picture", then set the change interval next to it to your preference,
and then click "Random Order" and close the box. You can do the same
thing for screen savers by selecting that tab at the top of the screen
before exiting the control panel.
OR
Go to the folder with all of the pictures in it using the finder. In the
finder window itself, select the four boxes at the top (for large icon
view) and you should see thumbnails of all the pictures. Go through them
and remove the ones you don't want by either dragging them out of the
folder, or highlighting the picture(s) with the mouse and then
right-clicking to bring-up "move to trash".
Then once again in the System Preferences, choose "Desktop and Screen
Saver." In that control panel you can select "stretch to fill screen"
and then in the list, navigate to the picture folder. thumbnails of all
the pictures left in the folder should show-up in the window next to the
scroll box. Then at the bottom of the Control Panel click on "Change
Picture" as in the first example, above, then as before, set the change
interval next to it to your preference, and then click "Random Order"
and close the box. Just as with iPhoto, you can do the same thing for
screen savers by selecting that tab at the top of the screen before
exiting the control panel.
Either method should get you those pictures as random desktop pictures
or screen savers or both.
> Second Frustration
> __________________
>
> The other frustration is the long delay there is from right clicking on
> a selection of objects and the contextual menu appearing. I have a
> folder that is about 80MB in size and contains 12 MP3 songs. Again I
> wanted to simply select all 12 tracks and then right click on the
> selection so that I could send the tracks to a nifty media player called
> "MacAmp Lite X", but whenever I do this, there is about a 10 second
> delay before I can access the "Open With" command. What is the point of
> putting Open With in the right click contextual menu if it is not
> supposed to be used?
Can't help you here as I've never used MacAmp. I use iTunes which
doesn't exhibit the characteristic that you describe.
> Wishlist for a better Finder
> ____________________________
>
> Is it possible to configure Finder so that I have an "Invert Selection"
> command similar to that which I use extensively in Windows Explorer on
> my XP machine? Any third party apps or utilities that will give me a
> more Windows Explorer look and feel, especially when accessing folders
> containing large numbers of files?
Yes. Its a piece of Malware called Windows. But seriously, if you want
Windows, use Windows. It is futile to try to make a Mac work like
Windows and to be honest, most Mac users don't want Macs to work like
Windows - at all. If you just want some Mac features on Windows, wait
for Vista. It will have clumsily implemented Mac OSX features out the
kazoo, because even though Mac folkes don't want their Macs to be like
Windows, Bill Gates apparently wants Windows to be like the Mac.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dechah
--
George Graves
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