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Mar 16, 2003, 09:58 PM
 
This MUST have been discussed before, but I couldn't find good searchwords for it, so here goes:

I have 4 drives in my G4 with 3 volumes and I want to make sure that the "Backup Drive" shows up last. What characters can I put before it to order it behind any alphabetical characters? In OS 9 you could use a bullet (option-8) to do this, but I'm not sure how to in X.

Suggestions?

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Mar 25, 2003, 07:14 PM
 
bump . . . bump . . . bump . . . bump . . . bump . . . bump ... bump...bump...bump..bump..bump..bump..bump..buMP.BUMP.BUMP.BUMP.BUMP.BUMP.BUMPBUMPBUMP

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Mar 26, 2003, 04:08 PM
 
jeez, settle down already.

There are tens of thousands of characters in Unicode, readily available via the Character Palette in 10.2. Many of them can be used for this purpose... try a few.
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Mar 26, 2003, 04:17 PM
 
heh...was just listening to some music and thought I would be somewhat interesting with my bump.

Any suggestions? I have tried several using the option key and other things.


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Mar 26, 2003, 05:31 PM
 
Isn't it annoying that bullet doesn't work anymore? I wish Apple would change that.

I generally use the letter "x" to drop items to the bottom. Works (most of the time), and seems OS-appropriate.

Several of the Greek characters from the Char. Palette drop to the bottom of an alphabetized list as well.
     
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Mar 26, 2003, 06:09 PM
 
Thanks for the tips. I occasionally have z items, so right now I'm using ? (omega), but I'd really love something that didn't stand out so much.

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