[mac4theblind] Re: imported a CD and it's now on my desktop, how do I fix it?

  • From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 19:57:12 -0400

command o is the best way I know of.

On May 15, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Jenny Keller wrote:

You did a great job.

thank you so much.  I'm still getting the hang of the whole macintosh HD thing. 
 I kind of liken the finder with Window's explorer.  

Is it correct that you have to use command O to open the HD, or am I making it 
harder than it has to be?

Jenny
On May 15, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

> OK.
> 
> That's fine.  First of all, you're not dumb and neither is your assumption. 
> Let's get that cleared up front.  Everyone has to start somewhere.
> 
> Basically, when we talk about things being mounted or unmounted, all we 
> basically are saying is it binds itself somewhere.  So In other words, when 
> we say that the CD gets mounted to your desktop, all we simply mean is, that 
> CD will appear on your desktop as a volume.  If you used Windows before using 
> the mac, think of a volume as nothing more than a drive.  On windows you had 
> drive letters, like say, C colon, where on the mac, they are called volumes, 
> hince:  Macintosh HD, Volume.
> 
> So, basically, to mount something is just saying you're taking the media 
> in/on that drive, and you're mounting it, or in other words, you're placing 
> it to a specific destination.  In this particular case, your desktop.
> 
> Say you had a USB flash drive.  If you put that in one of your USB ports, in 
> then would get mounted on your desktop for easy access.  Now, if you look at 
> the desktop, and you was to vo+left and right arrow around, you'd notice 
> you'd have your macintosh HD volume, but then in addition, you'd see your 
> flash drive you just plugged in.  Now, you either could unmount it with 
> command+E was you were sitting on it.  That would eject the drive.  Being 
> we're not dealing with a CD, saying we're ejecting it, quote unquote kind of 
> is a bit confusing, I know, but escentially, either way, by ejecting, all 
> you're doing is unmounting it and taking it off your desktop and preparing it 
> to be removed.
> 
> I hope that makes at least a little bit of sense, but if it doesn't, don't 
> worry.  don't be bashful in letting me know.  Perhaps I can find another way 
> to better explain it.
> 
> Chris.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:17 PM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: imported a CD and it's now on my desktop, how do 
> I fix it?
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean by mounts, I just assumed, and I know 
> what they say about assuming:) that it meant putting it on the desktop.
> 
> I just wasn't aware that it did that since I've never used the disc drive on 
> my Mac and I've had it since last June.  I know, kind of dumb, but I was 
> under the impression that anything you played, disc, or anything else, 
> automatically went to I tunes so I didn't want anything going to I tunes that 
> came from a disc.
> 
> Now I know that it asks you about importing a disc, so that's cool.  also, I 
> don't have that many discs left.
> 
> thanks again for trying to learn how I learn,  That means a lot to me.
> 
> Jenny
> On May 15, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, any time you put a CD in your drive, audio, data, DVD, or what ever it 
>> may be, it's going to mount to the desktop.  That's one of the easiest ways 
>> then to get to the disc and browse the content of it.
>> 
>> Granted, you can tell the Finder not to mount stuff like that to the 
>> desktop, but I'd honestly not advise it.  Had you simply wanted to play the 
>> disc and not actually import it, you would a told it no, not to import, then 
>> in ITunes, under your sources list, make sure the disc was selected, which 
>> it already should a been at that point, then go over to the track list 
>> table, select the first track on the disc, then hit return to start playing 
>> it from that point.
>> 
>> We need to clear up a few things.  I don't want you being further confused. 
>> When us list members as myself say something mounts or un! mounts from the 
>> desktop, tell us in your own words what you think we mean by that?  That's 
>> not questioning your intelligence, please please know that, it's just I 
>> wanna see your logic, so that if you don't follow, I can better learn your 
>> style of learning, so that in the future I'll know better how you think, and 
>> how best to help you out.
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:45 PM
>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: imported a CD and it's now on my desktop, how do 
>> I fix it?
>> 
>> 
>> Nope that's not what I did at all.
>> 
>> I just put the CD into the Mac, hoping it would play it, it asked me if I 
>> wanted to import it into I tunes, I went to the yes box, clicked it, and 
>> there you go.
>> 
>> I don't see it anymore on the desktop, so I guess when I took it out of the 
>> Mac, it disappeared from the desktop.
>> 
>> thanks for all your help.
>> 
>> Jenny
>> On May 15, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
>> 
>>> No, if it's not in the mac then you do literally have a copy of it on the 
>>> desktop as you initially stated.
>>> Wow!  That's bizarre!  Again, I need to know more what you did and how you 
>>> went about importing the disc, as I have a very strong suspicion you just 
>>> copied the disc with command+C then pasted it where ever.
>>> 
>>> That definitely won't work for importing discs, if that's what you did.
>>> 
>>> Chris.
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:25 AM
>>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: imported a CD and it's now on my desktop, how 
>>> do I fix it?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I do that even though the CD is ejected and no longer in the Mac?
>>> 
>>> Jenny
>>> On May 15, 2012, at 9:46 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> when you are sitting on it on the desktop, press command-e to eject it.
>>>> 
>>>> On May 15, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Jenny Keller wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I imported a CD and it's now on my desktop.  I only want it in I tunes, so 
>>>> what do I do?
>>>> 
>>>> It's probably a simple answer, but I want to make sure I don't make a 
>>>> mistake.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
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