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rockrocks · May 16, 2005, 04:42 PM

First of all, I'd like to say hello to everyone! (I'm new to this forum)

Anyway, I was organizing my files and putting some of them into the movies folder earlier today. Accidentally, I dragged the "movies" shortcut out of the box- and it just went "poof". I have no idea how I can get it back. Can anyone help me out?

Here's a screenshot. (Taken with FreeSnap)

Chuckit · May 16, 2005, 04:45 PM

Just drag it back in from your home folder.

rockrocks · May 16, 2005, 04:53 PM

that was easy. wow, now i feel stupid.

thanks for the help though.

Goldfinger · May 16, 2005, 05:02 PM

You must that was stupidly simple Rockrocks

JHromadka · May 16, 2005, 05:47 PM

This is why I think you should have to Command-drag to remove things from the Dock and the sidebar like you have to with menu items.

romeosc · May 16, 2005, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

You must that was stupidly simple Rockrocks

No need to insult an newbe, OS X is not always intuitive!

Mac users are kind and helpful not like PC users!

mdc · May 16, 2005, 06:07 PM

one more thing. you don't need freesnap to take a screenshot.

apple + shift + 3 = fullscreen
apple + shift + 4 = click and drag a selection
apple + shift + 4 then spacebar = click on a window

built into mac os x

rockrocks · May 16, 2005, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by mdc

one more thing. you don't need freesnap to take a screenshot.

apple + shift + 3 = fullscreen
apple + shift + 4 = click and drag a selection
apple + shift + 4 then spacebar = click on a window

built into mac os x

i'm aware of those... but those save as .pdf's, and it's much easier to just use freesnap, which can save the shot as a .jpg.

btw, i actually figured it out before coming back to this thread.. i posted almost instantly after having the problem, out of panic... i thought it would've been something much more complicated.

CharlesS · May 16, 2005, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by rockrocks

i'm aware of those... but those save as .pdf's, and it's much easier to just use freesnap, which can save the shot as a .jpg.

Not if you're using Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or better. Then, the screenshots are saved as PNGs.

ManOfSteal · May 16, 2005, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by JHromadka

This is why I think you should have to Command-drag to remove things from the Dock and the sidebar like you have to with menu items.

Amen.

ReggieX · May 16, 2005, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by JHromadka

This is why I think you should have to Command-drag to remove things from the Dock and the sidebar like you have to with menu items.

Totally disagree.

ManOfSteal · May 16, 2005, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by ReggieX

Totally disagree.

Why?

powertrippin · May 16, 2005, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

You must that was stupidly simple Rockrocks

Yeah well it's pretty dumb that you forgot a word, so I guess you're even.

Brass · May 16, 2005, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by rockrocks

i'm aware of those... but those save as .pdf's, and it's much easier to just use freesnap, which can save the shot as a .jpg.

However, the built-in key combinations can do more than just PDF (PNG for Tiger)...

Add "CTRL" key to the combination to copy the screenshot to the clipboard instead of saving as a file. You can then paste it anywhere into whatever file format you like.

Very flexible.

Goldfinger · May 17, 2005, 02:37 AM

Originally Posted by powertrippin

Yeah well it's pretty dumb that you forgot a word, so I guess you're even.

Oh get the ****ing stick out of your ass. It wasn't meant to be "insulting".

Ω · May 17, 2005, 03:12 AM

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

Oh get the ****ing stick out of your ass. It wasn't meant to be "insulting".

Why bring his donkey into this?

theolein · May 17, 2005, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by mdc

one more thing. you don't need freesnap to take a screenshot.

apple + shift + 3 = fullscreen
apple + shift + 4 = click and drag a selection
apple + shift + 4 then spacebar = click on a window

built into mac os x

As someone else said, if you add the CTRL key to those combos, you send the screenshot to the clipboard. If you open Preview and type apple + N, you automatically get the screenshot in a new window. Type apple + shift + E and you can save it to any format that Preview supports, such as Jpeg, Tiff etc.

jamil5454 · May 17, 2005, 07:25 AM

You could also fire up Grab which exports in tiff by default.

tuqqer · May 17, 2005, 09:26 AM

As someone else said, if you add the CTRL key to those combos, you send the screenshot to the clipboard. If you open Preview and type apple + N, you automatically get the screenshot in a new window. Type apple + shift + E and you can save it to any format that Preview supports, such as Jpeg, Tiff etc.

Great tip! I think you need to type Apple-Shift-S, though, it bring up Preview's Save As dialog box. The Apple-Shift-E doesn't get you anywhere.

Chuckit · May 17, 2005, 09:48 AM

I think it's still apple-shift-E in 10.3 — for Export. It looks like that's been rolled into Save As now.