okay, David, I'm ready to start this all and blow my mind in this 'huge new beast. Man I'm senile On Nov 29, 2013, at 5:49 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Sarah and all, > Mavericks is a huge new beast. > > you can practically rewrite it with a couple of powerful commands. Let’s get > to your issue and then we’ll blow your mind. > > Open system preferences, go to keyboard, focus on the shortcuts tab, go down > to “command-accent” and make sure it is checked. > Now, in the finder preferences pane, make sure the tabs checkbox is unchecked > and you should be good to go. > > Now, to blow your mind. > > In help center under the menu bar, if you go down to the third command, it’s > what’s new in mavericks and it’s awesome. > On Nov 29, 2013, at 18:28, Kerri <shalom75@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > that is the issue, command accent does not work any longer. > On Nov 29, 2013, at 1:58 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> you can also use command-accent. >> >> On Nov 29, 2013, at 0:48, Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Actually you probably can have both Documents and Downloads open, or at >> least I can. For one thing, if you think a window has disappeared, try using >> the back button in your toolbar and you may find it; be sure to repeat using >> the back button until it dims to see everything there. Also experiment with >> cmd-t to open a new tab and go to Documents and then do cmd-t again and go >> to downloads. If your tab bar is showing, cmd-shift-tm you can then change >> tabs. I haven't figured out everything well enough to give a clear >> explanation of everything, but I think if you will experiment with new tabs, >> new windows, cmd-accenting, selecting from tab bar and using the back button >> you will find nothing is actually missing; it's just different and at least >> compared to what we were doing seems a little confusing. >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> May the words of my mouth >> and the meditation of my heart >> be acceptable to You, Lord, >> my rock and my Redeemer. >> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) >> >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 28, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Kerri <shalom75@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Before I answer that, I have also noticed that I can ply open one window >>> (for example, I cannot have downloads and documents open simultaneously) >>> and the command I issued was command w to close a window. >>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:15 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> what command did you use? >>>> I use column view and just move left and right without vo and it works >>>> fine. Admittedly, you have to move a lot left or right some times, but >>>> it’s pretty quick. >>>> >>>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 17:22, Kerri <shalom75@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> that did it, used to use another command, thanks. >>>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 2:18 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman >>>> <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>>> try command-uparrow. >>>>> >>>>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 16:25, Kerri <shalom75@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> hi, all. I have a strange issue that when I try to close a window, I'm >>>>> taken back to desk top. >>>>> >>>>> I opened my external hard drive on which are folders, one of which was >>>>> music. When I opened the music, listened to a song, tried to back out of >>>>> music, it didn't take me to the list of folders on the external, I was >>>>> taken right back to desktop. 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