Re: The Desktop
- From: Hugh Gibbons <hugh_gibbons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:31:43 -0600
In article <1fn423tlfkrss6ms2bshkbb6fj4v3rgnts@xxxxxxx>,
Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My wife's desktop is filling up. This is our first Mac, and we hate
desktops full of icons.
A lot of these are .dmg files she can delete. Some of them are less
obvious.
She uses MSN Messenger, as it had all of her old contacts. I just
installed Adium and guessed correct about her MSN password (I wonder
how many people have multiple accounts as they forget earlier
passwords). When I ran it, it logged her off MSN messenger, which
still had a triangle under it saying it was running. I'd like her
to try Adium, but she may decide she wants her more familiar app
(except now that she has a camera in her computer, she'd like to find
out how to use it).
Then I tried dismounting MSN messenger's drive on the desktop - but it
wouldn't dismount because it was being used. I found the original -
her logon folder had the Mac Drive, the MSN drive, and the Network. I
don't want to get rid of anything needed, but I want to clear icons
off of the desktop.
I'm way to ignorant to start deleting stuff (although it's easy to
pull things out of the trash).
There's no need to delete stuff if all you want it to clear space on the
desktop. Get rid of all the stuff you don't want first, by dragging it
to the trash.
The Desktop is just a folder with contents that are always visible in
the Finder. The Desktop is really only for two things:
* stuff you use all the time
* stuff you're working on this week
Anything else ought to be filed away in a systematic fashion so you can
find it easily.
One easy filing system is to organize everything by projects or
subjects, and put the project folders on the Desktop, or you can put
them in your Documents folder if you prefer. This is a really handy way
to do things when you get around to cleaning up. If a project is no
longer important enough to you to keep the files around, you simply
trash the whole folder.
Some people keep application icons (usually aliases) on the Desktop, but
that's not a good place for them. Put applications in the Applications
folder, and make sure the Applications folder appears on the Dock. Then
you can click and hold on the Applications folder icon on the Dock,
which will cause a drop-down menu to appear under your cursor, and you
can then select the application you want to run. I do the same thing
with my Documents folder. Applications you run very frequently should
have their own Dock icons.
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