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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition
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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

by Keir Thomas
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition
Tip 212Where Does This File Live?

Sometimes I open a file for editing, perhaps one attached to an email, and I have no idea where it’s stored on my computer. One option is to click FileSave to see this information in the Save As dialog box, but a much easier solution is to right-click the filename in the title bar of the program window. This will show a hierarchical display of folders. The top one nearest the file’s icon will be where the file is stored. The second one from the top will be where the parent of that folder is, and so on, going right back to the name of the hard disk and then the name of your computer, which should be the last in the list.

Selecting any entry in the list will open that folder (or disk) in Finder for browsing. ...

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