[DM-MUG] Fwd: [TMC-NLC] Mac 911 by Christopher Breen

[Victoria L. Herring]

For our group, some general info
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> Lion, Time Machine, and the death of the iPhoto interface
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> Reader Ian Martin is perplexed by one of Lion’s “features.” He writes:
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> I recently installed Lion and dutifully backed up my hard drive with
> Time Machine. Yesterday I opened iPhoto and, using the Time Machine
> interface, attempted to restore a picture I’d deleted. Time Machine
> didn’t behave the way I expected. Instead of the iPhoto interface
> remaining, I’m shown a Finder window. Assuming this is the way Time
> Machine and iPhoto now work, how am I supposed to restore individual
> iPhoto images?
> 
> Regrettably, what you’re seeing is The New Way under Lion. You can no
> longer enter the iPhoto interface with iPhoto. Instead, Apple tells us
> that you must restore your entire iPhoto library. Like you, I consider
> this a huge step backwards, but Apple doesn’t do this kind of thing
> for the fun of it. If there weren’t a problem with The Old Way in
> regard to Lion and Time Machine, I’m certain Apple wouldn’t have
> abandoned it.
> 
> So, you can do it Apple’s Way, navigate to your user folder and then
> to your Pictures folder (the iPhoto Library directory’s default
> location), fire up Time Machine, and restore your iPhoto Library. Or
> you might consider the Sneaky Way.
> 
> Before we don our sneakers, I suggest that you first launch iPhoto and
> select its Trash folder. Unless you’ve explicitly emptied that Trash,
> your image is still there. If you have emptied iPhoto’s trash and the
> image is truly gone, follow along.
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> The Sneaky Way is to Control (right) click on the iPhoto Library,
> choose Show Package Contents from the resulting contextual menu,
> locate the Masters folder, and navigate down through the nested
> folders (they’re nested by Year, Month, Day, Some Oddly Named Folder,
> and then the images for that day). Now fire up Time Machine and go
> back to a point before you tossed the images. Locate the images you
> want (you can use Quick Look within Time Machine to find just the
> images you desire) and restore them.
> 
> When you return to iPhoto, your images won’t be there. You’ll have to
> dig into the newly updated Masters folder and locate the images you’ve
> restored. Pull them out of the folder they’ve been moved to and then
> add them back to iPhoto by dragging them in.
> 
> “But wait!” the sneakiest of you suggest. “Why not also restore all
> the files within the iPhoto package that have been updated. That way
> your iPhoto library will return to the state it was in when you first
> tossed the images!”
> 
> Nicely stated, and this could be a workable solution if you haven’t
> added any images to iPhoto since you deleted those now longed-for
> photographs. But if you have added images I can’t help but think that
> Bad Things could ensue if you’re working with an iPhoto library that
> has new images and an old database.
> 
> No, best to just leave it at recovering your deleted images and
> flinging them back into iPhoto as if you were adding new images.
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> The workings of a Stationery Pad
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> Reader Jake Tesler has a question about a long-standing OS X feature
> that few people use. He writes:
> 
> Can you tell me what “stationery pad” does? It’s that little checkbox
> in a Finder’s Get Info window. I’ve always been curious, but I can’t
> figure it out.
> 
> The Stationery Pad feature has been around for years. Helpful though
> it can be, very few people I know use it. And that’s too bad.
> 
> It’s a way of creating a template document. For example, create a
> blank TextEdit document, save it to the desktop, select it, press
> Command-I, and enable the Stationery Pad option. Double-click on that
> document and you generate a copy of it, complete with all of the
> original document’s content. The original file remains untouched.
> 
> You can do it with any file type but, of course, it’s not useful for
> all files. For example, it doesn’t do you a lot of good to save most
> image and movie files as stationery pads.
> 
> 
> Killing Lion's autocorrect
> 
> A reader who wishes to remain anonymous may desire that anonymity
> because he or she doesn’t care to be corrected. The nameless person
> writes:
> 
> I upgraded to Lion when it first came out and the feature I like least
> is autocorrect. When typing, my Mac routinely corrects my spelling and
> often inserts incorrect words. How do I turn this feature off?
> 
> Helpful as I find autocorrect on my iOS devices—where typing is tricky
> because of a smaller keyboard with no physical feedback—I too find it
> distracting on my Mac. I can offer a couple of bits of welcome news
> for those who don’t care for this feature—not all applications support
> it and, for those that do, it can be turned off.
> 
> To do so, launch System Preferences and select the Language & Text
> preference. In that preference select the Text tab and disable the
> Correct Spelling Automatically option. Before you uncork the champagne
> and go on a tear of intentional misspelling, however, take note: Any
> applications currently open that support autocorrect will continue to
> correct your spelling and suggest words to you. To prevent them from
> doing this you must quit the applications. Relaunch them and
> autocorrect will be disabled.
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> Viewing an old Address Book archive
> 
> Reader Bob Trudeau would like to preview Address Book archives. He writes:
> 
> Is it possible to view an Address Book archive without importing it to
> Address Book? A while back, I lost all my Address Book content, and
> since then I’ve been rebuilding and adding manually. I recently
> discovered an old Address Book archive that might have information I’d
> like to use in my current Address Book data. But I don’t want to
> import that old archive at the risk of destroying a lot of new data
> I’ve added manually.
> 
> Although I’m certain that there are geekier ways to go about this, I’d
> keep it relatively simple and do this:
> 
> Move your old archive file to the root level of your hard drive.
> Launch System Preferences, go to the Accounts (Snow Leopard) or Users
> & Groups (Lion) preference, and create a new account. Log into that
> new account, launch Address Book, choose File -> Import. You’ll be
> asked if you’re sure you want to replace the contacts currently in
> Address Book. As you’ve just created this account, you will have no
> contacts here other than Apple Computer and your own user card. Go
> ahead and replace this with the contents of the archive.
> 
> You can now look through the contacts that appear in Address Book.
> Select those you want that aren’t in the list of contacts within your
> regular account and drag them to the Desktop to create a vCard that
> contains these contacts. Then drag that vCard to the root level of
> your hard drive so that you can easily access it. Now switch back to
> your regular account and import that vCard.
> 
> The broader lesson here is that having an extra user account to do
> this kind of thing can be helpful. Whenever you want to perform an
> action that may endanger the data in your regular user account, switch
> to the Mucking Around account and do what you will there.
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