macOS Sierra by Pogue, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

MacOS Sierra: The Missing Manual®The book that should have been in the box® The Missing Credits

About the Author About the Creative Team Acknowledgments

About The Missing Manuals

1. Introduction

What’s New in Sierra About This Book

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

The Very Basics

I. The macOS Desktop

2. Folders, Windows & Finder Tabs

Getting into macOS

Logging In The Elements of the macOS 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 Insta–Full Screen Snappable Windows 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 Keep Folders on Top The Preview Pane Quick Look

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

Finder Tabs

Creating Tabs Using Tabs Tab Management

Tabs in Other Apps Logging Out, Shutting Down

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

Getting Help in macOS

3. Organizing Your Stuff

The macOS 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: Even Easier Locked Files: The Next Generation

Get Info

Uniwindow vs. Multiwindow The Get Info Panels

Shortcut Menus, Action Menus

New Folder with Selection Share

Optimized Storage

Store in iCloud Optimize Empty Trash Automatically Reduce Clutter More to Delete

4. 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

5. 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

II. Programs in macOS

6. 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 macOS 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 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 iCloud Desktop & Documents

The Cocoa Advantage

The Fonts Panel Retina Friendliness Title Bar Tricks Background Window Control Cool Text-Selection Tricks Secret Keyboard Shortcuts

7. Data: Typing, Sharing & Backing Up

The Mac Keyboard

The Complicated Story of the Function Keys

The Touch Bar + Fingerprint Reader

The Fingerprint Sensor The Control Strip Customizing the Touch Bar QuickType on the Touch Bar

Notes on Right-Clicking Power Typing

The Spelling and Grammar Checker Text Substitution (Abbreviation Expansion)

Insert the proper typographical symbols Replace abbreviations with much longer phrases

Auto-Periods, Auto-Caps Case Swapping

The Many Languages of macOS 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

8. Dictation & Siri

Dictation

Dictation Step by Step Punctuation Enhanced Dictation Speech Settings

Siri on the Mac How to Use Siri How to Use “Hey, Siri” What to Say to Siri

When Things Go Wrong Siri’s Personality What to Do with Siri’s Results

Advanced Siri

Teach Siri About Your Relationships Fix Siri’s Name Comprehension Siri Settings

The Mac Reads to You

Setting Up the Mac’s Voice

Announce when alerts are displayed or applications need your attention Speak selected text when the key is pressed

9. Mac+iPhone: Continuity & AirDrop

Mac as Speakerphone

And if It’s Not Working

Texting from the Mac Instant Hotspot Handoff AirDrop The Universal Clipboard Apple Watch Login

III. The Components of macOS

10. System Preferences

The System Preferences Window

Choosing a Preferences Pane Hiding the Icons You Never Use

Accessibility

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

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

Displays

Display Tab Arrangement Tab (Multiple Monitors)

The wired way The wireless way

The Arrangement Tab Color Tab Options 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 Dictation

Language & Region Mission Control Mouse

Scroll Direction Secondary Click Tracking Speed Smart Zoom

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

Sound Effects Tab Output Tab Input Tab

Spotlight Startup Disk Time Machine Touch ID

Fingerprints for Apps, Websites, and Apple Pay

Trackpad

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

Force click Variable pressure “Notch” clicks

Users & Groups

11. 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

12. The Free Programs of macOS

Your Free Programs App Store Automator 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 GarageBand iBooks

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

General tab Store tab Parental tab

Image Capture

Import To: Import Some, Import All Scanning

More power to you

iMovie iPhoto iTunes

Your Stuff Four Ways to Fill Your Library Playlists

Smart playlists Editing and deleting playlists

Apple Music 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

Playing with Playback

Turning on the Visualizer 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 Collaborative Notes Locking Notes 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 Sidebar

Faces Places Memories Instant Slideshows Opening Photos Editing Photos

More control sliders

The Rest of Photos

Preview

Importing Camera Photos Operating Your Scanner Multiple Pages, Multiple Views Preview as Graphics Viewer

Bunches o’ graphics Cropping graphics Fixing up photos Converting file formats

Preview as PDF Reader Annotations and Drawing Tools Signing PDF Documents with Your Real Signature Fill in PDF Forms The Toolbar

Reminders

The Details Bubble The Calendar of Deadline Hell Lists Syncing Reminders

QuickTime Player Safari Stickies

Creating Sticky Notes Growing and Shrinking Notes Formatting Notes Saving Sticky Notes

System Preferences TextEdit

TextEdit’s Two Personalities Working in TextEdit Style Sheets Tables TextEdit as Web Designer TextEdit Preferences TextEdit’s Other Writing Tools

Time Machine Utilities: Your macOS Toolbox

Activity Monitor

The list of processes The System Monitor tabs

AirPort Utility Audio MIDI Setup Bluetooth File Exchange Boot Camp Assistant

Installing Boot Camp Using Boot Camp Forth and back, Windows/Mac Keyboard translation guide Accessing Mac files from the Dark Side—and vice versa

ColorSync Utility Console DigitalColor Meter Disk Utility

Disk Utility, the hard drive repair program Disk Utility, the disk-image program

Grab Grapher Keychain Access Migration Assistant Network Utility Script Editor System Information

Saving a report

Terminal VoiceOver Utility

IV. The Technologies of macOS

13. Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper

Introducing Accounts

The First Account

Creating an Account

Phase 1: Choose an Account Type

Administrator accounts Standard accounts Managed accounts with Parental Controls Sharing Only account The Guest account Group

Phase 2: Name, Password, and Status Phase 3: Choose a Picture Phase 4: Login Items (Startup Items)

Parental Controls

Apps Tab Web Tab Stores Tab Time Tab Privacy Tab Other Tab

Simple Finder

Editing Accounts

Deleting Accounts

Setting Up the Login Process Signing In, Logging Out

Identifying Yourself Logging Out Logout Options

Sharing Across Accounts Fast User Switching macOS and Security

Two-Factor Authentication Gatekeeper FileVault The Firewall The Password Assistant The Keychain

Locking and unlocking the Keychain Managing Keychain Multiple Keychains Keychain files

Five Privacy Shields

Location Services Contacts, Calendars, Reminders Twitter, Facebook Accessibility Diagnostic and Usage Data

14. Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop

Wiring the Network

Ethernet Networks Wi-Fi Networks Cell Networks FireWire Networks

File Sharing: Three Ways AirDrop

Sending by AirDrop Eight Reasons AirDrop Might Seem Not to Work Receiving a File by AirDrop

Sharing Your Public Folder Sharing Any Folder

The Get Info Method The System Preferences Method

Accessing Shared Files

Connection Method A: Use the Sidebar Connection Method B: Connect to Server Disconnecting Yourself Disconnecting Others

Networking with Windows

Seated at the Mac, Seeing the PC Seated at the PC, Seeing the Mac More Mac-Windows Connections

Screen Sharing

Other Mac: Give Permission in Advance Your Mac: Take Control The Toolbar Variations on Screen Sharing

Screen sharing through Messages Screen sharing the manual way Screen sharing with Back to My Mac

More Dialing In from the Road

15. Graphics, Fonts & Printing

Mac Meets Printer

Setting Up a Printer Printer Preferences

Making the Printout

Printing

Managing Printouts Printer Sharing Faxing PDF Files

Opening PDF Files Creating PDF Files

Fonts—and Font Book

Where Fonts Live Font Book: Installing and Managing Fonts

Looking over your fonts Printing a reference sheet Eliminating duplicates Adding, removing, and hiding fonts Font collections Smart collections Font libraries Exporting fonts

The Fonts Panel

Choosing fonts from the Fonts panel Designing collections and favorites

ColorSync

Getting ColorSync Profiles Default Profiles More on ColorSync

Graphics in macOS

Graphics Formats on the Mac

Screen-Capture Keystrokes

The Whole Screen One Section of the Screen A Dialog Box, Menu, Window, or Icon

16. Movies & Sound

QuickTime Player

Fancy Playback Tricks Editing Movies Recording Movies with QuickTime Player Recording Screen Movies from the Mac Recording Movies from an iPhone or iPad Screen Internet Streaming QuickTime Streaming Video from Your Browser Ways to Export Your Video

Post to YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook Send to email, Messages, AirDrop Saving the finished movie

Playing Sounds

Controlling the Volume Alert Beeps and You

Choosing an alert beep Adding new alert beeps

Recording Sounds

Making the Recording

V. macOS Online

17. Internet Setup & iCloud

The Best News You’ve Heard All Day Network Central and Multihoming

Multihoming

Broadband Connections

Automatic Configuration Manual Configuration Ethernet Connections Wi-Fi Connections Commercial Hotspots

Cellular Modems Tethering (Personal Hotspot) Dial-Up Modem Connections Switching Locations

Creating a New Location Making the Switch

Internet Sharing

Turning On Internet Sharing

Meet iCloud iCloud Drive Photos

iCloud Photo Library My Photo Stream iCloud Photo Sharing

Email Address Data Synchronization Find My Mac, Find My iPhone Family Sharing

Setting Up Family Sharing Life in Family Sharing

Back to My Mac Apple Pay on the Web More iCloud Features

Automatic Backup Continuity Books, Music, Apps, Movies: The Locker in the Sky

18. Mail & Contacts

Setting Up Mail

Importing Old Mail

Checking Your Mail

The Mailboxes List

Tailoring the Look of Mail

Tweaking the Three-Column Layout Tweaking the Classic Layout The Toolbar

Writing Messages

Attaching Files to Messages Mail Drop: Sending Huge Attachments Marking Up, Signing, and Drawing on Attachments Signatures

Stationery Reading Email

Filters Conversation View Adding the Sender to Contacts Data Detectors Opening File Attachments Replying to a Message Forwarding Messages Redirecting Messages Printing Messages Filing Messages Flagging Messages Mark as Read/Unread Finding Messages Deleting Messages

Emptying the Trash folder Turning deleted mail invisible Archiving messages

Exporting Mailboxes Message Rules

Setting up message rules

VIPs The Anti-Spam Toolkit

Using the Junk Mail Filter More Anti-Spam Tips

Contacts

Importing Addresses

Importing from Yahoo, Google, Exchange, or another Internet service Importing from another address-book program About vCards

Creating Address Cards

Editing an address Adding addresses from Mail

Groups

Smart groups Removing someone from a group

Adding Pictures

Replacing and removing a picture Free headshots from Facebook

Finding an Address Changing the Contacts Display Printing Options Contacts Backups

19. Safari

The Unified Address/Search Bar

Searching the Web Address/Search Bar Tips

Bookmarks, Favorites, and Top Sites

Adding a Bookmark Organizing Bookmarks in the Sidebar Organizing Bookmarks in the Editor Favorites View Favorites Bar Top Sites

Full Screen and Gestures Scrolling Five Ways to Magnify a Page Customizing the Toolbar Saved Passwords: The iCloud Keychain

Memorized Contact Information Memorized Passwords Synchronized Passwords Auto-Filled-In Credit Cards Setting Up iCloud Keychain

Set up the first Mac Adding another Mac to your iCloud Keychain Adding an iOS gadget to your iCloud Keychain

Auto-Generated Passwords

Tabbed Browsing

Tab View

iCloud tabs

Pinned Tabs

Tips for Better Surfing

The Reading List The Download Manager Status Bar Reader Keyboard Control Graphics Worth Saving Expanding Web Forms Saving Web Pages to Disk Sending a Page to a Friend Designate Your Start Page Finding Text on Web Pages The History Menu PDF Pages Online Shared Links RSS Subscriptions Picture-in-Picture Video

Privacy and Security Features

Erasing Your History Private Browsing Cookie Control—and Privacy Control Stifle Pop-Ups and Pop-Unders

20. Messages

Welcome to Messages Setting Up Messages Let the Chat Begin iMessages Other Chat Networks

The Buddies List

Filling your buddies list Broadcasting your status Sorting and sizing your friends

Your icons In-Chat Fun Group Chats Audio and Video Chats

Sharing Your Screen

iCloud Screen Sharing Screen Sharing with Non-iCloud Accounts

21. FTP, SSH, VPN & Web Sharing

FTP

Uploading and Downloading from FTP Sites Just Downloading from FTP Sites

Connecting from the Road Remote Access with SSH

Getting In Remote Control Program Killing

Virtual Private Networking

Setting Up the VPN Connection Connecting to a VPN The Fine Points of VPN

VI. Appendixes

A. Installing macOS Sierra

Hardware Requirements The Standard Installation The Setup Assistant

After Installing over an Older Version After Installing onto a Blank Drive

The Homemade Installer Disk

How to Use Your Emergency Disk

B. Troubleshooting

Slowdowns and Fans Minor Eccentric Behavior

First Resort: Repair the Disk Second Resort: Look for an Update Third Resort: Toss the Prefs File Fourth Resort: Restart Last Resort: Trash and Reinstall the Program

Frozen Programs (Force Quitting) Application Won’t Open Startup Problems

Kernel Panic Safe Mode (Safe Boot) Gray Screen During Startup Forgotten Password

Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks

The Recovery HD Internet Recovery Physical Recovery Disks

Fixing the Disk

Method 1: Disk Utility Method 2: fsck at the Console

Single-user mode (-S at startup)

Where to Get Troubleshooting Help

Help Online Help by Telephone

C. The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary

About [this program] Accessibility Options control panel Active Desktop Add Hardware control panel Add or Remove Programs control panel All Programs Alt key Automatic Update Backspace key BIOS Calculator Camera and Scanner Wizard CDs and DVDs Character Map Clean Install Clipboard Command line Control Panel Copy, Cut, Paste Ctrl key Date and Time Delete Key (Forward Delete) Desktop Directories Disk Defragmenter Disks Display control panel DLL files DOS prompt Drivers End Task dialog box Exiting programs Explorer Favorites File Sharing Folder Options Fonts Help and Support Hibernation Internet Explorer Internet Options Java Keyboard control panel Logging in Mail control panel Maximize button Menus Minimize button Mouse control panel (My) Computer (My) Documents, (My) Music, (My) Pictures (My) Network Places Notepad Personal Web Server Phone and Modem Options control panel Power Options Printer Sharing Printers and Faxes PrntScrn key Program Files folder Properties dialog box Recycle Bin Regional and Language Options control panel Registry Run command Safe Mode ScanDisk Scheduled Tasks Scrap files Screensaver Search Shortcut menus Shortcuts Start menu StartUp folder System control panel System tray Taskbar “Three-fingered salute” Tooltips User Accounts control panel Windows (or WINNT) folder Windows logo key Windows Media Player Windows Messenger WordPad Zip files

D. The Master Secret Keystroke List

Startup Keystrokes Speech Recognition In the Finder Menu Finder Menu File Menu Edit Menu View Menu Go Menu Window Menu Help Menu Power Keys The Dock Managing Programs Dialog Boxes Trackpad Gestures Magic Mouse Gestures

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