Comments on: OS X Finder tutorial and customization (Part 1)

By: Scott Haneda

Scott Haneda — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:59:01 +0000

@Shelley, that is a bit of a problem

First thing, see if you can get to it, which is, to do something that will require a password, and try to guess it, more then likely, it is simply blank.

Open System Preferences, and open Accounts, there is a small lock in the bottom corner, click on that, and it will ask you for password. Try entering in nothing, see if that works, try a few other guesses. If you get it, this is the area where you will also set it as well.

If that does not work, instructions on how to do a password reset form the boot CD’s are here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274

By: Shelley

Shelley — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:12:38 +0000

I have a new MacBook Pro, which I like a lot. The IT guy at my office installed the OS & software on it. I’m afraid to log out because I’m not sure what/which of my passwords it will require.

Any suggestions?

By: Scott Haneda

Scott Haneda — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:50:40 +0000

@Jim, both 10.5 and 10.4 have this menu, I just had it toggled off. If you go into your System Preferences, and to the “Appearance” area, you can see where you change the number of items in theses lists.

It was a bit of a tough call on whether to cover them in the finder stuff, or hold out until we get to the System Prefs.

By: Scott Haneda

Scott Haneda — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:41:23 +0000

@Ron, yes, thanks. I started posting these under my main account, and I have it customized to show no recent items. Now I move to a new generic account to take screen shots, as it is more on the same page as other new Mac users.

In a short while, we are going to start digging through all the preference pages on OS X, and as soon as we get to that setting, we will cover the “Recent Items” menu in as much detail as possible.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:09:48 +0000

@ Ron – wondered about Recent Items too. Are you running Tiger
OS X 10.4? maybe Leopard OS X 10.5 doesn’t include that item.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:28:39 +0000

You might like to update the Finder Tutorial to include Recent Items that now appears the drop down window for the Finder. Thanks keep up the great work with this web site.

Ron

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:45:10 +0000

Ah! I probably should have used Force Quit when Word froze on me, instead of using the ESC key. I will remember this…

I really like this site. Keep these articles coming. I’m learning some great things here.

By: salamander

salamander — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:59:27 +0000

Typo spotted in the first sentence for “applications”. (Feel free to delete this comment after you make the change.)