Mac OSX Leopard: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
Changes made in the 3/08 reprint.
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This page was updated March 28, 2008.
 

Introduction
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But it’s safe to say that practically ever nook and cranny has been dusted off
 
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But it’s safe to say that practically every nook and cranny has been dusted off
 
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making it easy for you to see what’s inside. Unfortunately, only a relatively small number of icons appear; when you click a full folder, you don’t get to see everything inside it. And the pop-up hierarchical listings of what’s in a Dock folder are gone. 
*The see-through menus are problematic, too. It’s hard to read the menu commands when they’re superimposed on whatever text is in your open document or Web page.
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*Stacks are arcs or grids of icons that spring out of a Dock folder when you click it, making it easy for you to see what’s inside. Unfortunately, only a relatively small number of icons appear; when you click a full folder, you don’t get to see everything inside it. Fortunately, in 10.5.2 and later, Apple offers an alternative: simple pop-up hierarchical listings of what’s in a Dock folder (see page 126).
*The see-through menus are problematic, too. It’s hard to read the menu commands when they’re superimposed on whatever text is in your open document or Web page. At least you can now make the menu bar itself opaque (page 316).

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Chapter 00 intro
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Version 10.5.1 and Beyond
...It’s only a matter of time before Apple descends again to deliver updates called 10.5.2, then 10.5.3, and so on.
 
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Version 10.5.2 and Beyond
Then came 10.5.2, a massive update—hundreds of megabyte—that fixed some serious design problems in Leopard’s features. It restored list view to Dock folders, added an option to make your menu bar opaque again, and so on. This book covers 10.5.2, but it’s only a matter of time before 10.5.3 comes out, then 10.5.4, and so on.

 
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Chapter 1
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Into this list, you can stick the icons of anything at all—files, programs, folders, disks, or whatever—for easy access
 
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Into this list, you can stick the icons of anything at all—files, programs, folders, anything but disks—for easy access
 
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Chapter 1
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If you’ve read the preceding paragraphs and gone on a squealing delete-fest just to see how much damage you could inflict on your Sidebar, it’s time for a splash of cold water. Once you drag the Macintosh HD or iDisk icon out of the top of the Sidebar, you can’t drag them back in. Suddenly you’re stuck with the orphaned horizontal divider, with nothing to divide. The top half of your list is empty.
That’s why Apple gives you a quick way to restore the Sidebar to its factory settings. 
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In the pre-Leopard days, dragging stuff out of the Sidebar to get rid of them sometimes posed a small quandary: Once you dragged the Macintosh HD, Home, or iDisk icons out of the Sidebar, you couldn’t drag them back in. Suddenly you were stuck with the orphaned horizontal divider, with nothing to divide. The top half of your list was empty.
In Leopard, mercifully, anything you drag out of the Sidebar can be dragged back in again, including the big-ticket items like Home and Macintosh HD. 
Even so, there’s a quicker way to restore the Sidebar to its factory settings. 

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Chapter 1
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*Double-click a folder or disk icon on your desktop.
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*Double-click a folder or disk icon on your desktop.
*Press Command as you make a selection from a window’s title-bar menu (page 26).

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Chapter 1
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And here’s the tip of the week: Double-click one of the right-side handles to make the column precisely as wide as necessary to reveal all the names of its contents. 
Best of all, you can Option-double-click any column’s right-side handle to make all columns just as wide as necessary.
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Similarly, Option-double-click a column’s right-side handle to make all columns as equally wide—when you absolutely, positively don’t want any names truncated.
And here’s the tip of the week: Double-click one of the right-side handles to make the column precisely as wide as necessary to reveal all the names of its contents. 

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Chapter 4
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A stack is what you get when you click a disk or folder icon on the Dock—and it’s one of Leopard’s marquee new features. The effect is shown in Figure 4-2.
Tip: If you press Shift as you click, the stack opens in slow motion. Amaze your friends.
In essence, Mac OS X is fanning out the folder’s contents so you can see all of them. If it could talk, it would be saying, “Pick a card, any card.”
Tip: You can change how the icons in a particular stack fan are sorted: alphabetically, chronologically, or whatever. Use the “Sort by” section of the shortcut menu (Figure 4-2, top left).
Fan vs. grid vs. list
When Leopard debuted, Stacks were not, ahem, among its most popular features. The essential problem was that too few icons fit in a fan (Figure 4-2, top right). Oh, Apple had sort of thought of that—if there were more than a handful of files in a folder, you’d get a grid effect instead (Figure 4-2, bottom).
But the grid, too, has limited storage space for icons. (The exact number depends on your monitor size.) In any case, if there are too many icons to display at once, the last icon says, “24 more in Finder” (or whatever the number is). You have to click that icon to open the folder’s regular window, where all the contents are available. Of course, you’ve now defeated the fan’s step-saving purpose.
Clearly, none of this was as good as what Mac OS X had in 10.0 through 10.4: a simple pop-up list of everything in a Dock folder. This menu scrolled as necessary, so you could always get to the complete contents of a disk or folder. 
Better yet, it was a hierarchical list, meaning that you could burrow into folders within folders, all from the original Dock icon, all without opening a single new window (Figure 4-2, top left). People used to stick their entire Home folders or even disk icons onto the Dock, simply because they knew they now had complete menu access to everything inside, right from the Dock.
Fortunately, Apple restored the List view option in its 10.5.2 update. Now, in fact, you can choose List, Fan, or Grid view on a folder-by-folder basis, simply by using the shortcut menu of each Dock folder (page 126) or the Options submenu in List view, shown in Figure 4-2.
Note: When your Dock is positioned on a side of the screen instead of the bottom, the Fan option isn’t available. Also, if you choose Automatic from a Dock folder’s “View content as” menu, then Mac OS X chooses either Fan or Grid view, depending on how many icons are in the folder.
ECFIS: Ever-Changing Folder-Icon Syndrome
In the original Stacks feature, folder icons on the Dock changed to resemble whatever you most recently put into them. For example, a folder might look like an Excel spreadsheet icon, a PDF icon, or a photo—but never a folder.  It was wildly disorienting, since you couldn’t get to know a folder by its icon.
This,  too, was fixed in Mac OS X 10.5.2. The shortcut menu of every Dock folder now bears a “Display as” section, shown in Figure 4-2. It lets you choose either Folder (a folder looks like a folder) or Stack (the folder’s icon changes to reflect its contents.)
 
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Chapter 4
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Top: When you click the icon of a folder or disk on the Dock (just one single click), you get this effect: a rainbow that shows what’s inside. Click an icon to open it, just as though you’d double-clicked it in a window. You can even Option-click one icon after another, opening them all while the stack remains arrayed before you.
Or grab an icon and drag it right out of the stack—into another window, say.
Bottom: If there are too many icons to fit in the arc (as determined by your monitor size), you get this grid instead. Alas, here, too, space is limited. If there are more than fits on the grid, click the “35 more in Finder” icon at the lower right. You go to the folder’s regularly scheduled window, where you can see the complete list of icons)
 
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What happens when you click a folder in the Dock? You see its contents in any of three views.
Top left: In List view, the folder contents appear as a menu; you can “drill down” into subfolders, and you open something by choosing its name. (You switch among the three views using the commands in the Options submenu, circled here.)
Top right: This Fan view is new in Leopard. Click an icon to open it. You can even Option-click one icon after another, opening them all while the stack remains arrayed before you.
Bottom: In Grid view, many more icons appear than can fit in Fan view. Even so, space is limited. If there are more than fits on the grid, click the “3 more in Finder” icon at the lower right. 
 
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Chapter 4
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[new Stacks discussion, continued]
 
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Chapter 4
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[new Stacks discussion, continued]
 
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Chapter 4
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*Time Machine lets you start and stop Time Machine backups (see page 126). To find the “Show” checkbox: Open System Preferences->Time Machine.
 
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Chapter 5
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*In the Choose an Application dialog box, turn on “Always Open With” (shown at bottom in Figure 5-12).
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*In the Choose an Application dialog box (the one that appears when you double-click a document whose “parent” program isn’t clear), turn on “Always Open With” (shown at bottom in Figure 5-12).

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Chapter 5
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Note: Furthermore, the Open dialog box shows you only icons for disks, folders, and documents that you can actually open at this moment. For example, when you’re using GarageBand, picture files show up dimmed.
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Note: Furthermore, the Open dialog box gives you access only to disks, folders, and documents that you can actually open at this moment. For example, when you’re using GarageBand, picture files show up dimmed.

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Chapter 6
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An iPod is an extremely fine music player with enormous capacity. That’s because it contains an actual hard drive that stores the songs.
But because the modern iPod has a USB connector, it makes a dandy portable hard drive for everyday files, too—not just music. 
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An iPod is an extremely fine music player with enormous capacity. That’s because it contains an actual hard drive (or a bunch of memory) that stores the songs.
But because the modern iPod has a USB connector, most models make dandy portable hard drives for everyday files, too—not just music. 

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Chapter 6
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Note: For more detail on configuring your Mac for Bluetooth connections, see page 227.
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Note: For more detail on configuring your Mac for Bluetooth connections, see page 308.
 
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Creating a Windows disk on the Mac
You can even create a Windows disk on your Macintosh. CDs and DVDs that you burn on the Mac, for example, are Windows compatible right out of the gate. Chapter 11 has details on disc burning.
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Chapter 11 has details on disc burning.

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That second hard drive can take any of these forms:
*An external USB or FireWire hard drive.
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That second hard drive can take any of these forms:
*An external USB or FireWire hard drive.
*An Apple Time Capsule. That’s an AirPort base station/wireless network backup hard drive in one, compatible with Time Machine; it’s available in gigantic capacities.

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this writing, you can buy a 300-gigabyte internal hard drive for under $90, for goodness’ sake, or an external 500-gig drive for $125—and hard drive prices-per-gigabyte only go down.
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At this writing, you can buy a 300-gigabyte internal hard drive for under $90, for goodness’ sake, an external 500-gig drive for $125, or a one-gigabyte Apple Time Capsule for $500 (a combination AirPort base station/Time Machine wireless backup drive)—and hard drive prices-per-gigabyte only go down.

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Any time you want Time Machine to update its backup before the hour’s up, Control-click (or right-click) Time Machine’s icon on the Dock. From the shortcut menu, choose Back Up Now.
You can pause the backup the same way—if you need to use the backup drive for another quick task, for example. Choose Stop Backup Up from the Dock icon’s shortcut menu. (Don’t forget to turn the backing-up on again when you’re finished.)
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Tip: And even then, you can force more frequent backups if you want to. Any time you want Time Machine to update its backup before the hour’s up, just choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine menulet (Figure 6-7). Or choose Back Up Now from the shortcut menu of the Dock’s Time Machine icon.
You can pause the backup the same way—if you need to use the backup drive for another quick task, for example. Choose Stop Backup Up (from either the menulet or the Dock icon’s shortcut menu). Don’t forget to turn the backing-up on again when you’re finished.

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Now click the Time Machine icon on the Dock (or in the Applications folder). Don’t look away; you’ll miss the show.
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Now click the Time Machine icon on the Dock, or choose Enter Time Machine from the menulet (Figure 6-7, top). Don’t look away; you’ll miss the show.

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Top: This is the big payoff for all your efforts.
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Top: Choose Enter Time Machine from the menulet. (If you don’t see this menulet, turn on “Show Time Machine status in the menu bar,” shown in Figure 6-6.)

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Chapter 6
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This message lets you decide how to proceed when data on one of the synced Macs is wildly out of sync with what’s been “published” by another Mac. You can merge the information from the two (a great way to combine address books or calendars), make this Mac’s data wipe out the other’s (“Replace data on .Mac”), or make the Internet-based data replace this computer’s (“Replace data on computer”).
You can do this job en masse (top)—or, if you click Options, you can make this choice independently for each data type.
 
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This message lets you decide how to proceed when data on one of the synced Macs is wildly different from what’s been “published” by another Mac. You can merge the information from the two (a great way to combine address books or calendars), make this Mac’s data wipe out the other’s (“Replace data on .Mac”), or make the Internet-based data replace this computer’s (“Replace data on computer”).
You can do this job en masse (top)—or, if you click More Options, you can make this choice independently for each data type.
 
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*Workflow control. Run and Stop “play back” and stop the workflow you’re 
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*Stop, Run. These buttons control playback of the workflow you’re building. 
 
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Chapter 9
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Tip: The top 23 pixels of your graphic are partly obscured by Leopard’s translucent menu bar—something to remember when you prepare the graphic. 
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Tip: The top 23 pixels of your graphic are partly obscured by Leopard’s translucent menu bar—something to remember when you prepare the graphic.  Then again, you can also make the menu bar stop being translucent—by turning off the “Translucent Menu Bar” checkbox shown in Figure 9-7.

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Chapter 9
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Tip: If you’ve turned on “Clicking,” as described above, then the wording of this option changes to say, “Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click.” In this case, right-clicking is even easier: whenever you want a right click, just tap the trackpad with two fingers! It gets addictive fast.
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If you have a MacBook Air, this panel contains some additional gesture options—for rotating images (works in iPhoto or Preview), enlarging or shrinking something (Web pages in Safari, photos), or scrolling. Let the little embedded movies be your guide.

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*DVD or CD Sharing. This feature was added to acommodate the MacBook Air laptop, which doesn’t have a built-in CD/DVD drive. When you turn on this option, any MacBook Airs on the network can “see,” and borrow, your Mac’s DVD drive, for the purposes of installing new software or running Mac disk-repair software. (Your drive shows up under the Remote Disc heading in the Air’s Sidebar.) 
 
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On multiple-processor Macs, you see a different bar for each chip, enabling you to see how efficiently Mac OS X is distributing the work among them
 
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On multiple-processor or multi-core Macs, you see a different bar for each, so you can see how efficiently Mac OS X is distributing the work among them
 
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But if the sender used the “Bcc:” field to hold all the recipients’ email addresses, you, the recipient, won’t see any names but your own at the top of the email. 
 
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But if the sender used the “Bcc:” field to hold all the recipients’ email addresses, you, the recipient, won’t see anybody else’s names at the top of the email. In the “To:” box, you might see the sender’s name, or “undisclosed recipients,” or nothing at all. 
 
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