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rcurl
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Mac OS X
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Aug 3 23:10 UTC 2004 |
For discussion of and questions about Mac OS X.
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rcurl
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response 1 of 127:
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Aug 3 23:18 UTC 2004 |
I have Mac OS 10.3.2 running with "Classic" OS 9.2.2, and use both (and also
have a lot of stuff created under 9.2.2). But my question is about the
Macintosh HD window, where two (out of dozens) of folders are highlighted.
That is, there are colored bars running across the whole line for those
folders. One is highlighted red, along with all the apps in the folder
(all games antedating even OS 9) and the other is highlighted yellow,
and contains mostly recent folders and files. My question is, why are
just these two folder-lines highlighted, and how do I turn that off?
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blaise
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response 2 of 127:
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Aug 4 04:04 UTC 2004 |
Is this the OS X Finder or the Classic finder?
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twenex
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response 3 of 127:
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Aug 4 04:28 UTC 2004 |
Sounds like you (or someone) has attached Labels to them. It's about 12 years
since I've used a Mac, but iirc they can be turned off by selecting the
"Labels" Item in the Special menu, or by selecting the Icon and choosing "Get
Info" [or whatever the item is now called) from the menus.
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blaise
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response 4 of 127:
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Aug 4 13:42 UTC 2004 |
That is correct for the Classic (OS 9) Finder; OS X no longer has Labels
and I'd need to know what View mode he's in to figure it out further.
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gelinas
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response 5 of 127:
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Aug 4 15:14 UTC 2004 |
I suspect the colors mark applications that are not fully compatible with
the Classic environment: Yellow for those that may run, with problems, and
Red for those that won't work at all. But I've not been able to confirm this
with the OS X Help.
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twenex
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response 6 of 127:
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Aug 4 17:25 UTC 2004 |
I stand corrected; thanks.
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rcurl
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response 7 of 127:
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Aug 4 20:37 UTC 2004 |
This is always - OSX or Classic. All the red highlighted apps run (in OS
9). The contents of the yellow highlighted folder are just files, not
apps, and a similar collection to that found in lots of the other folders
in Macintosh HD.
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gelinas
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response 8 of 127:
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Aug 5 00:07 UTC 2004 |
When you say that they run "in OS 9", do you mean when booted into OS 9 or
do you mean in Classic when booted into OS X?
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rcurl
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response 9 of 127:
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Aug 5 05:30 UTC 2004 |
Both.
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prp
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response 10 of 127:
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Aug 15 17:39 UTC 2004 |
OS X _^Hd^Hd_^Ho^Ho_^He^He_^Hs^Hs support labels.
Select a file or folder. Click on the cog in the
toolbar. Select a label from the menu. If you
don't have the cog in your toolbar or don't have
a toolbar, control-click on the item. You can
also do this from the finder menu, but I forget
exactly how at the moment.
It sounds to me like Rane's items have labels.
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rcurl
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response 11 of 127:
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Aug 16 00:08 UTC 2004 |
That did it! Thanks. Color Label is under the File menu in OS X.
Control-clicking is what first produced a menu including Color Label - my
search in MAC Help didn't find Control-click for me. (Another "mystery" I had
was that the alphabetical order of items in a list were inverted, and the
little button for inverting it isn't on the window. I discovered that clicking
on the Name panel did it - by accident.)
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