Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition By David Pogue Changes made in the sixth printing (May 2003) Front matter: Iv (update copyright) xii (update book list) ---------------------- Chapter00 intro 13 (Update) Update the sidebar like this: Only a few months after the debut of Mac OS X 10.2, Apple began its traditional flood of double-decimal system updates: multi-megabyte installers that patch holes, fix bugs, improve compatibility with external gadgets, and make the whole system work more smoothly. You can read the stultifyingly boring list of changes in any particular version by searching the Apple Support Web site for "10.2.6" or whatever. But to give you an idea of what to expect, here were the fixes in Version 10.2.1: Disc Burning Enhancements improved compatibility of burned CDs with Windows and fixed bugs in iTunes CD burning and Disk Utility. The 10.2.1 update also made the Mac compatible with a long list of new CD burners. Digital Hub Enhancements fixed glitches with certain cameras, scanners, and camcorders, and fixed the "mouse and keyboard don't work after waking" problem. Networking and Mail Enhancements included fixes for various mail-importing, mail-sending, ISP-connecting, and Mac OS X Server problems. Printing Enhancements removed certain error messages and added more HP printer compatibility. Miscellaneous Enhancements included fixes for slow Web graphics, Entourage glitches, "ticking hard drive" problems, missing Help files, certain "wake from sleep" irregularities, and certain kernel panics. Version 10.2.2 was a similar touch-up, featuring stability tweaks to Address Book, iChat, the built-in firewall, Mail, Print Center, Rendezvous, Sherlock, and file sharing with Windows. The 10.2.3 update of January 2003 offered a few more meaningful fixes (plus a long list of obscure ones). For example, when you burn CDs destined for use on Windows machines, they're no longer cluttered with Mac-specific (and, on the Mac, invisible) files and folders like the Desktop folder. Navigating the columnar Open and Save dialog boxes by keyboard behaves more like it does in Finder list views. And you can drag documents onto the Print Center program icon to print them. (If you drag a folder onto Print Center, you even get a printout of its contents.) Predictably, version 10.2.3 is also compatible with even more CD burners and digital cameras. In addition to the usual bug fixes, 10.2.4 (February 2003) came with a new version of Address Book that offered an Undo command and the ability to remain running even with all windows closed. Otherwise, its enhancements primarily affected printing, networking, and Finder bugs. April 2003 brought 10.2.5, featuring improved reliability for AirPort, Bluetooth, Classic compatibility, FireWire, and Mail, plus tiny tweaks for dial-up Internet connections, audio, disc recording, graphics, and printing features. Only a month later, Apple released 10.2.6, an update with even tinier tweaks (for example, it fixes a bug "in which English is the default language and Asian language scripts are not available in the International preference pane if a script's font is not available"). You don't have to do anything in particular to get these updates: One day you'll be online with your Mac, and a Software Update dialog box will appear before you, offering you the chance to download and install the patch. Almost always, doing so is a good idea. --------------- Chapter00 intro 14 (Update) [reflowed to accommodate p. 13 changes] --------------- Chapter1 31 (Update) The text used to read: Then choose File -> Show Info It now reads: Then choose File -> Get Info --------------- Chapter1 41 (Update) The text used to read: Get to your own Home folder (see page 53) by pressing Option-Command-H. It now reads: Get to your own Home folder (see page 53) by pressing Shift-command-H. --------------- Chapter1 45 (Update) The text used to read: (Use the horizontal scroll bar or the Shift-Tab keystroke to bring them back.) It now reads: (Use the horizontal scroll bar to bring them back.) --------------- Chapter1 49 (Update) The text used to read: the keystroke changed Mac in OS X 10.2 It now reads: the keystroke changed in Mac OS X 10.2 --------------- Chapter4 139 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: Yes, the Finder was a Carbon program up through 10.1.5. It now reads: Yes, the Finder is a Carbon program. --------------- Chapter5 150 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: Note: Classic requires Mac OS 9.2 or later It now reads: Note: Classic requires Mac OS 9.1 or later --------------- Chapter5 166 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: This technique, too, works only if you've installed Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X on different disks or different partitions of a single disk. It now reads: This technique, too, works only if you've installed Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X on different disks or different partitions of a single disk. And it doesn't work on the oldest Mac OS X-compatible machines, like blue-and-white Power Mac G3 models. --------------- Chapter7 189 Just a tip The text used to read: fills it with dozens of copies of the classic "What does this font look like?" test sentence: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. It now reads: fills it with dozens of copies of the classic "Quick brown fox" test sentence (or something like it; actually, by substituting "jumped" for "jumps," Apple omitted the S). --------------- Chapter9 255 - 256 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: Drag the slider all the way to the left, however, It now reads: Drag the slider all the way to the right, however, --------------- Chapter9 281 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: Note, however, that the resulting report can be well over 100 pages long. In many cases, you're better off simply dragging through some information on one of the ASP screens, and then dragging (or copying and pasting) the selection into a waiting word processor. It now reads: Note, however, that the resulting report can be well over 100 pages long. In many cases, you're better off simply making a screen shot of the relevant Profiler screen, as described on page 407. --------------- Chapter12 369 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: By clicking the padlock and then using Þrst the Group pop-up menu, then the Access pop-up menu beneath it, you can change every group's degree of access independently. It now reads: By clicking the padlock and then using Þrst the Group pop-up menu, you can make the selected file or folder available to any other group (and then, by using the Access pop-up menu beneath it, specify that group's degree of access). --------------- Chapter14 436 (Update) cut this paragraph from sidebar: Although it doesn't seem quite as satisfying (for some reason), you can actually skip the name of the piece you want to move (Pawn, Knight, and so on). It's perfectly OK to call out the square locations only ("g3 to f5"). --------------- Chapter16 485 (Minor technical error) The text used to read: So 0204051700 means 2004, April 5, 5:00 p.m.) It now reads: So 0404051700 means 2004, April 5, 5:00 p.m.) --------------- Chapter19 536 (Minor technical error) Cut this from the caption: (Mail collects all of your email in a single set of "mailbox" folders. If you'd rather see a separate set of Inbox, Outbox, and other folders for each account, choose Mail®Preferences. Click Accounts, and then turn on "Show this account separately in mailboxes drawer.") --------------- Chapter22 appendix A 628 (Typo or formatting problem) Add this at bottom of page: Note: Some versions of the Mac OS X installer, such as the one that comes with Apple's Up-to-Date program, may not offer the upgrade install option. --------------- Chapter23 app B 642 (Update) The text used to read: Most of the time, the generic-folders problem stems from the corruption of three particular preference Þles in your Home®Library®Preferences folder: namely, LSApplications, LSClaimedTypes, and LSSchemes. Throw them away, and then log out. When you log back in, your applications should all have been restored to their rightful conditions. Note: Tossing these preference Þles also discards any document-to-application relationships you've established as described on page 124. It now reads: In earlier versions of Mac OS X, the generic-folders problem stemmed from the corruption of three particular preference Þles in your Home®Library®Preferences folder: namely, LSApplications, LSClaimedTypes, and LSSchemes. You could just throw them away, and then log out. When you logged back in, your applications were all have been restored to their rightful conditions. That simple trick is no longer available in Mac OS X 10.2, though. Instead, try these tactics. --------------- Chapter28 index 707 (Update) The text used to read: Safe Mode, 678 It now reads: Safe Mode, 642, 678 --------------- Chapter28 index 708 (Typo or formatting problem) The text used to read: sounds/Sound preferences, 234-237 It now reads: sounds/Sound preferences, 244-246 (two occurrences) ---------------