saving docs? where?

[otis]

I can't figure out how to save documents (let's say an illustrator 10 file) to a different hard drive or partition than my personal default area.

I am new to Unix - Old to Mac.

Can anyone explain this to me.

[Craig R. Arko]

In the 'Save As...' dialog, click the little triangle button to the right of the 'Where:' pop-up menu so that the triangle points up. That should reveal a window with folders similar to a Finder window in column view.

At the bottom of that window, you should see a horizontal scroll bar. Scroll all the way to the left and you'll see the available drives.

Much harder to explain than to do! :D

PS - that isn't a UNIX thing, just a Mac OS X thing.

[aalegado]

Originally posted by otis
I can't figure out how to save documents (let's say an illustrator 10 file) to a different hard drive or partition than my personal default area.

I am new to Unix - Old to Mac.

Can anyone explain this to me.

In the save dialogs, click on the down-pointing arrow. That will enlarge the dialog window to show a Columns view of the filesystem. By default your home directory ("personal default area") will be selected (i.e. the column containing the contents of your home directory will be "focused" or highligted). You can click on folders to open them and the focus will shift to the next column over. If you save, the file will go into that folder.

If you want to save on another volume, you have to click the left-arrow on the elevator/slider at the bottom of the window. Moving to columns to the left move you closer to the top of the filesystem or the "root" level. All your volumes are at the left-most column. When you see the desired volume name, click on it and it will "open" into the next column to the right. Clicking on succeeding folders will open more folders to the next column to the right. Repeat until you get to the desired location.

Getting organized under OS X has some similarities to OS 9's Finder and some key differences. Firstly, you should get used to the Column view in the Finder to get used to this navigation method since it's the same method used in open and save windows.

Next, make aliases of your favorite document locations in your home directory so that you can click on these to quickly navigate to your preferred locations.

[otis]

Originally posted by Craig R. Arko
In the 'Save As...' dialog, click the little triangle button to the right of the 'Where:' pop-up menu so that the triangle points up. That should reveal a window with folders similar to a Finder window in column view.

At the bottom of that window, you should see a horizontal scroll bar. Scroll all the way to the left and you'll see the available drives.

Much harder to explain than to do! :D

PS - that isn't a UNIX thing, just a Mac OS X thing.

[otis]

thanks -- scroll to the left... wow, I can't belive I didn't see that.