Mac OS X The Missing Manual, 2nd Ed

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.Note, however, that this format is incompatible with regular DVDs, and is quickly dying out.(At one time,Apple offered a built-in DVD-RAM drive in some Power Macs sold on its Web site.)DVD-RW.The latest and definitely the greatest is the Apple SuperDrive, which can play and recordCDs and DVDs.If your Mac came with a SuperDrive built in, you can take advantage of a Mac OS Xfeature that neither Windows nor any previous version of the Mac OS offers: the ability to use blank DVDsas massive backup disks that hold 4.7 GB each.(Technically, these are called DVD-R discs, and Applesells them for about $5 each.)If you've used iMovie to edit your home camcorder footage, you can also save them onto one of theseDVDs for playback in standard home DVD players the perfect way to distribute your masterpiece tofriends and family without sacrificing the pristine video quality.(Both editing movies and saving themonto a DVD using Apple's iDVD software are described in iMovie 2: The Missing Manual.)10.1.2 Disks In, Disks OutYes, you can insert all kinds of different disks into a Mac.But as far as the Mac is concerned, they're all justdisks.(Actually, the Mac thinks of them as volumes you can tell because that's how your Apple System Profilerdescribes them, for example.)When you insert a disk, its icon shows up on the right side of the screen.If you've used only Windowscomputers, this behavior may throw you at first.You no longer have to go hunting for the inserted disk's icon insome My Computer icon, as you do on a PC.To see what's on a disk you've inserted, just double-click its icon.NOTEYou can use Mac OS X like Windows if you choose.To open a single window containing icons of allcurrently inserted disks, choose Go Computer.To complete the illusion that you're runningWindows, you can even tell Mac OS X not to put disk icons on the desktop at all.Just chooseFinder Preferences and turn off the three top checkboxes "Hard disks," "Removable media(such as CDs)," and "Connected servers." They'll no longer appear on the desktop only in yourComputer window.To remove a disk from your Mac, use one of these methods:Drag its icon onto the Trash icon.For years, this technique has confused and frightened first-time Macusers.Their typical reaction: Doesn't the Trash mean delete? Yes, but only when you drag document orfolder icons there not disk icons.Dragging disk icons onto the Trash (at the right end of the Dock)makes the Mac spit them out.Actually, all you can really do is intend to drag it onto the Trash can.The instant you begin dragging adisk icon, the Trash icon on the Dock changes form, as though to reassure the novice that dragging a diskicon there will only eject, not erase it.As you drag, the wastebasket icon turns into a giant-sized Ejectlogo (which matches the symbol on the upper-right key of current Mac keyboards).Press the Eject key on your keyboard.Recent Mac keyboards, both on laptops and desktops, have aspecial Eject key in the upper-right corner.Hold it down for a moment to make a CD or DVD pop out.(Ifit's any other kind of disk, highlight the icon first.)Highlight the disk icon, and then choose File Eject ( -E).The disk now pops out.(Alternatively, you can Control-click the disk's icon and then choose Eject from the pop-up menu thatappears.)Control-click the disk icon.Choose Eject from the contextual menu.When Good Disks Go BadAny disk can go bad.When this happens, you may get an error message that reports the disk asbeing "damaged" or "unusable."If it happens to you, run the Disk Utility program in your Applications Utilities folder.Use its FirstAid tab.Click the broken disk, and then click Repair.Sometimes running the Repair function severaltimes in a row can correct a disk problem that's too stubborn for a single pass.Note that unlike its predecessor Disk First Aid, Disk Utility can't repair the disk it's on.To repair yourmain, internal hard drive, therefore, you must either restart the Mac from the Mac OS X CD or usethe built-in Unix version of Disk Utility, which is called fsck (see Section B.11).And, if after several times you don't succeed, try running a program like Alsoft's DiskWarrior (whichis sort of a more powerful, commercial version of Disk Utility).10.1.3 Startup DisksWhen you turn the Mac on, it hunts for a startup disk that is, a disk containing a System folder.If you've everseen the dispiriting blinking-question-mark icon on a Mac's screen, you know what happens when the Mac can'tfind a startup disk.It blinks like that forever, or until you find and insert a disk with a viable System folder on it.10.1.3.1 Creating a startup diskBy installing the Mac OS onto a disk be it a hard drive or rewritable CD or DVD you can create a startup disk.Not all disks are capable of starting up the Mac, however.RAM disks an older external FireWire disks don't work,and not all older Macs can start up from external FireWire drives.10.1.3.2 Selecting a startup diskIt's perfectly possible to have more than one startup disk simultaneously attached to your Mac [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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