Just got my MBP, TY!

What are the programs you guys use which implements growls notifications? like adium and firefox..

I know there is a list of applications, I just want to know what you people personally use.

Oh I have a another question. I have multiple chats going on in adium. How do i close just one ?

It's such a chore to right click( cmd-click) and click close chat. Is there a shortcut to it?

Oh and the software updater installed safari 4 and i cant seem to find it anywhere! It's not showing up on the spotlight or the dock. I've tried checking out the safari folder but then theres only history and bookmarks. I dont use it anyway, but i just wanna know where it exactly is.

 

Cmd+W closes windows/tabs in most apps.

Most of your applications will be stored in the Applications folder. Note that Safari 4 will replace the version of Safari you had previously on your system, so there isn't going to be an additional app called Safari 4.

 

Thanks for the shortcut!

Yes found it! But how come spotlight didnt find the safari application ?

 

Don't know. Perhaps you made a typo, or just got unlucky.

 

Can't be a typo coz the folder titled 'safari' pops up.

And is there a shortcut to toggle between the tabs in adium??

 

Cmd+arrow keys switches tabs in Adium. Note that this is not the same in other applications. You can remap those shortcuts though, in System Prefs>Keyboard/Mouse>Keyboard Shortcuts.

 

Thanks again!

I have another question. What's the use of labels in the get info windows?

And whats the shortcut for show desktop?

 

Labels as in the colour coding things? Those are just for your personal use, in case you want to mark certain files or folders and make them stand out.

Shortcut to desktop is Alt (Option) + Expose shortcut. So if you have your expose mapped to F1, it'll be Alt+F1. If you have it mapped to a hot corner, just hold in Alt and move your mouse to the corner of your screen.

 

What make and model of HDD is the 500gb in the mid 2009 version.

Thanks.

 

just make sure you dont block the vents.

everyone should know this.

you can change your touchpad as well. to use four fingers to open desktop, and show all windows.

 

Huh ? I don't understand.

I have another question. A folder in my external HDD is corrupted. I'm not able to delete it. I get an error saying corrupted data. Is there any way of getting around this error and actually deleting it?

Oh and i forgot to mention. This keyboard is awesome I'm not using that stupid dell of mine again.

 

Your NTFS HD? You might want to delete it using a Windows machine in that case. Otherwise, there are probably 3rd party tools that do this, or you could just use Terminal and use rm -Rf to remove it from the command line.

 

Yeah it is NTFS . I use that NTFS-3G driver. Even the windows machine isn't able to delete it.

 

Try terminalling my navigating to the folder and typing:

Code:

sudo rm -Rf FOLDERNAME

replacing FOLDERNAME with the name of the folder.

 

No need to give the folder location like in a pc? "c:\programfiles\ "

And its stored in my HDD so how will the mac find it without the pathname?

 

In *nix, / is the root directory (such as My Computer in Windows). External disks are located in the /Volume/ folder, so you can just navitage there by using cd command. To view files/folders in a directory you use the ls command, not dir.

 

I have no idea to do that. I got it upto the volumes directory. But I'm not able to access my External HDD

The command is -

cd /Volumes/FreeAgent Drive


It doesnt work . Although cd /Volumes works.

 

In Terminal, the TAB key is your best friend. Since there is a space in the name of your HD, you have to escape it with a \ character. However, you can employ the TAB key here, by just typing the first few characters of the name, and then pressing TAB. Try typing cd /Vo and pressing TAB. Watch the magic.

 

Agreed. It is magic. But even terminal is not able to delete the folder!

 

I'm sorry if repeating anything, joining the conversation late!

How is the hard drive formatted? If it is NTFS, the mac might not be able to communicate with it and thinks it is corrupt. You will need to reformat the entire drive to either FAT 32 (if you need it to work with BOTH windows and OS X) OR HFS (if you only need it to work with OS X).

Also regarding: sudo rm -rf
Be VERY careful when using those commands, you can destroy your OS pretty easily with a few commands

 

If the drive is NTFS there are open-source, free applications that will enable OS X to read/write it.

Mac Fuse + NTFS 3G. No need for formatting.

 

Yeah, that's precisely what I'm using. My mac can edit and delete all other folders except this corrupted folder.