Mac Book Pro questions

[richie]

I convinced a numpty friend of mine to buy a Macbook as he is fairly bad at looking after his files etc.

So far he is not impressed.

Plugged in a USB drive and could not find his files as for him nothing happened, no screen appearing or noise to let him know it had been found.

Any audible sounds available?

He was also trying to delete files but cannot apart from using Finder, which he finds hard to find.....

Everything is easier with a Mac they are just so easy and intuitive.

I am only kidding BTW and if anyone has any tips on above please reply so I can pass the message on, and wait for some more questions, thanks in advance

 

[cookie]

no sounds as far as i know to indicate mounting of a volume, but it will appear in the finder window. maybe the USB drive is formatted such that the mac can't see it? i don't know what format that might be however. should see all windows formats, just not write to them all. writes to FAT, but not NTFS.

finder is a square smiley face icon on the dock. can't miss it really

beware deleting files on USB sticks, and still no free space on the stick. you need to empty the trash after deleting, with the stick still plugged in. dumb idea.

 

[richie]

no sounds as far as i know to indicate mounting of a volume, but it will appear in the finder window. maybe the USB drive is formatted such that the mac can't see it? i don't know what format that might be however. should see all windows formats, just not write to them all. writes to FAT, but not NTFS.

finder is a square smiley face icon on the dock. can't miss it really

beware deleting files on USB sticks, and still no free space on the stick. you need to empty the trash after deleting, with the stick still plugged in. dumb idea.

OK, I did tell him to buy the Mac, even though as you know I would not buy one. He just needs time to forget how windows works and get into his Mac, at the moment he is struggling. The MAC sees his drives but he was expecting a pop-up window and not knowing he had to go find it himself.
Cheers

 

[er-minio]

no sounds as far as i know to indicate mounting of a volume, but it will appear in the finder window. maybe the USB drive is formatted such that the mac can't see it?

No, I think he means that he cannot find the USB drive because the computer doesn't show a redundant warning in your face that the device has been mounted and "click here to explore files".
All those annoying popups windows does by default.
Remember clippy?

Plugged in a USB drive and could not find his files as for him nothing happened, no screen appearing or noise to let him know it had been found.

It's called software "lock in". Sadly.

There are a couple of utilities, I'll try to fish it out.
But I would strongly advice to teach your friend to properly use a computer (either Windows, Mac or Linux or whatever) instead.

The reason he is bad at looking after his files is exactly this...

 

[Paul90]

Open Finder and go to preferences.
Under general you can tick to say what you want to display on the desktop when it is connected (external discs, CDs, DVDs, etc)

Then when they are plugged in an icon appears on the desktop.
You double click on it to open and see the files.

How hard is that ?

Paul

 

[richie]

Open Finder and go to preferences.
Under general you can tick to say what you want to display on the desktop when it is connected (external discs, CDs, DVDs, etc)

Then when they are plugged in an icon appears on the desktop.
You double click on it to open and see the files.

How hard is that ?

Paul

Good one thanks I seem to remember when I had a mac, a usb device appeared on the screen. Will try it out when I next see him.

 

[er-minio]

a usb device appeared on the screen

It has been like that since beginning of times.
Then, they changed it... and by default you don't see the volumes on the desktop anymore. Weird.

I think you can add some more sounds via Tinkertool.

 

[richie]

Guys, I ain't knocking it I suggested to the guy that he buy the macbook at twice the price of a PC as I know in the end for him it'll be perfect

 

[Dahoum]

Direct him here - PC to Mac - the basics

Lots of other good intro videos there too.

 

[Sebnev]

When I first moved from PC to Mac the best thing I found out was how to turn on the right click option on the mouse.....

Its in Preferences, Trackpad,, and turn on secondary click....

 

[sparkplug]

When I first moved from PC to Mac the best thing I found out was how to turn on the right click option on the mouse.....

Its in Preferences, Trackpad,, and turn on secondary click....

Been using them for years and never even saw that option

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