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I have a new (old, but new to me) PowerMac G4 with OS 10.4.11 installed on it, and I have been trying to learn how to use it. (My previous experience is nearly all with Microsoft Windows.)
I just bought a manual designed for my situation (Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, by David Pogue). It's a very good manual, but it's written for Snow Leopard; seeing no better alternative, I bought it on the assumption that there would be no major differences. Alas, I find that a fairly large number of the keystroke combinations he mentions do not work for me...
Was Snow Leopard a big big improvement over Tiger?
The particular irritant at the moment is the fact that none of the ways he gives for removing a file from Trash have worked:
- Put Back command (but there is none to be found right-clicking the files' icon or in the gear-icon menu).
- Command+Delete (nothing happens)
- Drag it manually (this works, but I don't remember where the file came from so I don't know where to drag it; Get Info only tells me where it is now, namely in the Trash, which of course I knew already).
At first I thought maybe my keyboard doesn't work, but some commands do work (e.g., Command+W to close a window, Command+Up arrow to move to an enclosing window).
Could it be I just have a sick Mac? I got it for a great price... now maybe not so great a price after all?
Peyton
I just bought a manual designed for my situation (Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, by David Pogue). It's a very good manual, but it's written for Snow Leopard; seeing no better alternative, I bought it on the assumption that there would be no major differences. Alas, I find that a fairly large number of the keystroke combinations he mentions do not work for me...
Was Snow Leopard a big big improvement over Tiger?
The particular irritant at the moment is the fact that none of the ways he gives for removing a file from Trash have worked:
- Put Back command (but there is none to be found right-clicking the files' icon or in the gear-icon menu).
- Command+Delete (nothing happens)
- Drag it manually (this works, but I don't remember where the file came from so I don't know where to drag it; Get Info only tells me where it is now, namely in the Trash, which of course I knew already).
At first I thought maybe my keyboard doesn't work, but some commands do work (e.g., Command+W to close a window, Command+Up arrow to move to an enclosing window).
Could it be I just have a sick Mac? I got it for a great price... now maybe not so great a price after all?
Peyton