Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, Jaguar Edition, The

Taking Advantage of Favorites

Favorites can make it much easier to access your favorite folders, documents, web pages, etc. Here are some ways to take advantage of Favorites.

• Rather than go hunting for the folder you are using most often this week, make it a Favorite. Then you can go to the Favorites submenu or Favorites folder to open it quickly, rather than having to dig through the Finder windows. For instance, at the moment I need to get to my folder that stores all of the chapters for this book. It resides in a “partition” (a separate section of my hard disk), which means to get to it I have to open that disk partition from the Computer window and open another window or two to get to my book folder. Instead, I made the folder a Favorite. ...