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[personal profile] kestrell
you should send me an e-mail. Galatea, my little laptop which went with me to MIT and upon which I composed my thesis, finally gave up the ghost. She was noble enough to give signs of failure, so I had enough time to back up my files, but not my address book.

Now I am trying to learn how to use Hypatia, my Mac Air, which looks like even more of a "Death Sliver" than Galatea did. Progress is slow, because most of the how to books only describe how to do things using a mouse and graphics, so I'm still trying to figure out how to get files from a USB onto the Mac Air using keyboard commands.

Date: 2012-09-24 02:25 am (UTC)
jesse_the_k: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040204184222/http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1031.html">Bitmapped "dogcow" Apple Technote 1013, and appeared in many OS9 print dialogs</a> (dogcow from OS9)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
Aieeee.

Although it can be done in the Finder, it will be easier done from within an application.

The Address Book system utility can grok (import) contact information that you have saved or exported from other applications in vCard, LDAP Interchange Format (LDIF), tab-delimited, and comma-separated value (CSV) formats.

If you have enough access to turn that data into one of those files, then start Address Book. Command-0 starts an import, and you can open the file anywhere on your hard drive. The upper right hand text box provides string search for your HD.

Date: 2012-09-25 02:30 am (UTC)
jesse_the_k: Drowning man reaches out for help labeled "someone tweeted" (someone tweeted)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
In my experience the Mac Finder (parallel to Explorer but without web connections) is grumpily visually oriented. As I was typing this comment, my trackpad fell apart. While I know lots of keyboard shortcuts, I can't navigate the interface entirely with the keyboard, so I am gonna bow out until my fuckin' machine gets fixed.

You might want to check out Pathfinder, at this website. It's a single-window, keyboard-oriented alternative to Finder. It also offers tons of power user features, and I don't know how well it hides them. On the other hand, access to the Unix command line might actually be helpful in terms of file manipulations.

Here's a roundup of Finder alternatives — end users are sighted; I hope there's a Blind-Mac-Group to advise you as well.

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