OS X El Capitan by Pogue, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

OS X El Capitan: The Missing Manual The Missing Credits

About the Author About the Creative Team Acknowledgments Also by David Pogue

Introduction

What’s New in El Capitan

The Big Picture Spotlight Updates Mail Updates Safari Updates A Lot of Misc

About This Book

About the Outline About→These→Arrows About MissingManuals.com

The Very Basics

One. The OS X Desktop

1. Folders, Windows & Finder Tabs

Getting into OS X

Logging In The Elements of the OS X Desktop

The Dock The menu The menu bar Disk icons on the desktop

Windows and How to Work Them

The Sidebar

Fine-tuning the Sidebar

Title Bar Close Button Minimize Button Full Screen Button The Folder Proxy Icon The Finder Toolbar Two Clicks, One Window Old Finder Mode Scroll Bars Resizable Edges Path Bar Status Bar

The Four Window Views Icon View

Icon Size Icon Previews Icon View Options

Always open in icon view Browse in icon view Arrange By, Sort By Icon size Grid spacing Text size Label position Show item info Show icon preview Background Use as Defaults

Arrange By and Sort By

Arranging Sorting Free dragging—and grid spacing

List View

Sorting the List Arranging the List Flippy Triangles Your Choice of Columns Other View Options Rearranging Columns Adjusting Column Widths

Column View

Column View by Keyboard Manipulating the Columns Grouping the Column Contents View Options

Cover Flow View The Preview Pane Quick Look

What Quick Look Knows Fun with Quick Look The Quick Look Slideshow

Finder Tabs

Creating Tabs Using Tabs Tab Management

Logging Out, Shutting Down

Sleep Mode Restart Shut Down The “Reopen windows” Option Log Out

Getting Help in OS X

2. Organizing Your Stuff

The OS X Folder Structure

Your Home Folder What’s on Your Hard Drive What’s in Your Home Folder

Icon Names

Rename One File Renaming Batches of Files

Selecting Icons

Selecting by Clicking Selecting Icons from the Keyboard

Moving and Copying Icons

Copying by Dragging Copying or Moving with Copy and Paste Dragging from the Title Bar Spring-Loaded Folders: Dragging Icons into Closed Folders Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work

Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once

What’s Good about Aliases Broken Aliases

Finder Tags

What Tags Are Good For Creating Tags Editing Tag Names and Colors Two Sets of Favorites Tags Applying Tags Using Tags Detagging Files

The Trash

Rescuing Files and Folders from the Trash Emptying the Trash I: Quick and Easy Emptying the Trash II: Secure and Forever Locked Files: The Next Generation

Get Info

Uniwindow vs. Multiwindow The Get Info Panels

Shortcut Menus, Action Menus

New Folder with Selection Share

3. Spotlight

The Spotlight Menu

Searching Your Mac Searching the Internet Calculations and Conversions The Preview Pane Opening a Result Spotlight Results Tips Advanced Menu Searches

Use quotes Limit by kind Limit by recent date Limit by tag Limit by metadata Boolean searches

The Searching Window

From Spotlight From the Finder The Basic Search

Where to look The suggestions list

Power Searches with Tokens Power Searching the Old Way

Kind Last opened date/Last modified date/Created date Name Contents Other

What to Do with Search Results

Customizing Spotlight

Privacy Settings

Smart Folders

4. Dock, Desktop & Toolbars

The Dock Setting Up the Dock

Organizing and Removing Dock Icons Pop-Up Dock Folders (“Stacks”)

Fan vs. grid vs. list

The Finer Points of Pop-Up Dock Folders Three Ways to Get the Dock Out of Your Hair

Auto-hiding the Dock Shrinking and enlarging the Dock Moving the Dock to the sides of the screen

Using the Dock

Switch Applications Operate the Dock by Keyboard Control Secret Menus Conduct Speed Tests Drag and Drop Do Your Filing Great Things to Put in Your Dock

The Finder Toolbar

Hiding or Shrinking the Toolbar Customizing the Icons on the Toolbar

Apple’s toolbar-icon collection Adding your own stuff

Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons

Designing Your Desktop

System Preferences Graphic Designers’ Corner: The Gray Look Dark Menu Bar and Dock Desktop Sounds

Menulets: The Missing Manual

Two. Programs in OS X

5. Documents, Programs & Mission Control

The Mac App Store Other Ways to Get Mac Software

Downloading Compressed Files

Disk images (.dmg files) Performing the installation

Uninstalling Software

Opening OS X Programs Launchpad

Redesigning the Launchpad Screens Folders Deleting App Store Programs

Windows That Auto-Reopen The Application Menu

Quitting Programs Force Quitting Programs

The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher Full Screen Mode Split Screen Mode

Starting Split Screen Mode, Method 1 Starting Split Screen Mode, Method 2 Exiting Split Screen Mode

Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter

Starting and Stopping Mission Control

Mission Control keystrokes Screen corners

Managing Windows in Mission Control

Spaces (Virtual Desktops)

Creating a Desktop Switching Spaces Deleting a Desktop The Finer Points of Spaces Two Eccentric Spaces Settings

Dashboard

Turn on the Dashboard Feature Opening the Dashboard Using Dashboard The Widget Browser Dashboard Tips Dashboard Preferences Widget Catalog More Widgets

Exposé

One-App Exposé Desktop Exposé Exposé Tip-O-Rama

Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way

Hiding the Program You’re Using Hiding All Other Programs The Bring-Forward, Hide-All-Others Trick Hiding (Minimizing) Individual Windows

How Documents Know Their Parents

Reassigning Documents to Programs

Reassigning a certain document—just once Reassigning a certain document—permanently Reassigning all documents of one type

Keyboard Control

Control the Menus Control the Dock Cycle Through Your Windows Control the Toolbar Control Tool Palettes Control Menulets Control Dialog Boxes Changing a Menu Keyboard Shortcut Redefining a Keystroke

The Save and Open Dialog Boxes

Sheets The Mini-Finder Insta-Jumping to a Folder Location The File Format Pop-Up Menu The Open Dialog Box

Auto Save and Versions

Versions

Rewinding to an earlier version Revert

iCloud Drive

iCloud Drive Defined Putting Files onto the iCloud Drive iCloud Drive on Other Devices

Cocoa and Carbon

The Cocoa Difference

The Fonts panel Retina friendliness Title-bar tricks Secret keyboard shortcuts Background window control Cool text-selection tricks

6. Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up

The Mac Keyboard

The Complicated Story of the Function Keys

Notes on Right-Clicking Power Typing

The OS X Spelling and Grammar Checker Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)

Insert the proper typographical symbols Replace abbreviations with much longer phrases

Case Swapping

Dictation

Dictation Step by Step Punctuation Enhanced Dictation Speech Settings

The Many Languages of OS X Text

Formats Input Sources The Character Viewer Keyboard Viewer

Ink: Handwriting Recognition Data Detectors Moving Data Between Documents

Cut, Copy, and Paste Drag-and-Drop

When to use drag-and-drop Drag-and-drop to the desktop

Export/Import

Exchanging Data with Other Macs

By Network By Email Using Dropbox Via iCloud Drive By CD or DVD FireWire Disk Mode/Thunderbolt Disk Mode (Target Disk Mode) Via Flash Drive Via Bluetooth

Sending a file Fetching a file

Exchanging Data with Windows PCs

Preparing the Document for Transfer

Is the document in a file format Windows understands? Does the file have the correct file name suffix?

Notes on Disk Swapping Network Notes Via the Internet

The Share Button

Editing the Share Menu

Time Machine

Setting Up Time Machine How the Backups Work Local Snapshots Changing Time Machine Settings Recovering Lost or Changed Files

Recovering from Contacts and Mail Recovering the entire hard drive Recovering to another Mac

Frequently Asked Questions

7. Mac+iPhone: Handoff, AirDrop & Continuity

Mac as Speakerphone

And if It’s Not Working

Texting from the Mac Instant Hotspot Handoff AirDrop

From iPhone to Mac

Three. The Components of OS X

8. System Preferences

The System Preferences Window

Choosing a Preferences Pane Hiding the Icons You Never Use

Accessibility

Display Zoom VoiceOver Descriptions Captions Audio Keyboard Mouse & Trackpad Switch Control Dictation

App Store Bluetooth

Pairing Advanced Options The Bluetooth Menulet

CDs & DVDs Date & Time

Date & Time Tab Time Zone Tab Clock Tab

Desktop & Screen Saver

Desktop Pictures

Using your own pictures Making the picture fit Auto picture changing

Screen Saver

Slideshows Nonphotographic displays Activating the screensaver

Dictation & Speech Displays

Display Tab Arrangement Tab (Multiple Monitors)

The wired way The wireless way

The Arrangement Tab Color Tab

Dock Energy Saver

Sleep Sliders Checkbox Options Scheduled Startup and Shutdown

Extensions General

Changing Colors Sidebar Icon Size Tweaking the Scroll Bars Default Web Browser Ask to Keep Changes When Closing Documents Close Windows When Quitting an App Number of Recent Items Allow Handoff Between This Mac and Your iCloud Devices Use LCD Font Smoothing When Available

iCloud Internet Accounts Keyboard

Keyboard Tab Text Tab Shortcuts Tab Input Sources

Language & Region Mission Control Mouse

Secondary Click Tracking Speed Smart Zoom

Network Notifications Parental Controls Printers & Scanners Security & Privacy Sharing Sound

Sound Effects Tab Output Tab Input Tab

Spotlight Startup Disk Time Machine Trackpad

Point & Click Scroll & Zoom More Gestures The Force Touch Trackpad

Force click Variable pressure “Notch” clicks

Users & Groups

9. Notifications

Insta-Respond to Bubbles Shutting Up the Bubbles

Dismiss One Bubble Do Not Disturb (Manual) Do Not Disturb (Automatic)

The Notification Center

Today Tab Notifications Tab Customizing the Notification Center Messaging, Tweeting, or Facebooking

10. The Free Programs of OS X

Your Free OS X Programs App Store Automator and AppleScript Calculator

Conversions

Calendar

Working with Views Making an Appointment

The mousy way The Quick Event way Location, alarms, travel time, and other details

What to Do with an Appointment

Editing events Rescheduling events Lengthening or shortening events Printing events Searching for events Deleting events

The “Calendar” Category Concept “Publishing” Calendars to the Web

Publishing Subscribing

Google, Yahoo, and Facebook Calendars Syncing Calendar with Your iPhone, iPad, and Other Computers

Chess

Playing a Game of Chess Chess Prefs Studying Your Games

Contacts Dashboard Dictionary DVD Player FaceTime

Placing a Call FaceTime Audio Calls Receiving Calls

Font Book Game Center

Getting Started Points and Achievements Making Friends Finding Games Managing Game Center

GarageBand iBooks

Downloading Books ePub Files PDF Files Your Library Reading Notes, Highlighting, and Other Options iBooks Settings

General tab Store tab Parental tab

iChat Image Capture

Import To: Import Some, Import All Scanning

More power to you

iMovie iPhoto iTunes

Your Stuff Three Ways to Fill Your Library Playlists

Smart playlists Editing and deleting playlists

iTunes Store

Music () TV (), movies (), and movie rentals Podcasts () iTunes U () Audiobooks () Apps ()

Internet Radio () Authorizing Computers Syncing an iPad or iPhone

Connecting the phone with a cable Connecting over Wi-Fi

iTunes Radio

Playing iTunes Radio Make your own station Deleting or editing a station

Playing with Playback

Turning on visuals Keyboard control Playing with the graphic equalizer

Launchpad Mail Maps

Meet Maps Finding Yourself Searching the Maps The Details Screen Bookmarks, Recents, Contacts Finding Friends and Businesses Directions Public Transportation Traffic Flyover Flyover Tours

Messages Mission Control Notes

Creating a Note Pinning Notes The Attachments Browser Notes Folders Notes Accounts

Numbers, Pages Photo Booth

Still Photos 4-Up Photos Movies Exporting Shots and Movies

Photos

The Layout

The time groupings The Source list The Albums tab

Opening Photos Editing Photos