<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For our group, some general info<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div>(The Mac 911 content is generously provided by Chris and Macworld for<br>use in Mac User Group ***newsletters*** only, and needs to include the<br>attribution included at the end of the article. Please respect this<br>requirement.)<br><br><br><br>Lion, Time Machine, and the death of the iPhoto interface<br><br>Reader Ian Martin is perplexed by one of Lion’s “features.” He writes:<br><br>I recently installed Lion and dutifully backed up my hard drive with<br>Time Machine. Yesterday I opened iPhoto and, using the Time Machine<br>interface, attempted to restore a picture I’d deleted. Time Machine<br>didn’t behave the way I expected. Instead of the iPhoto interface<br>remaining, I’m shown a Finder window. Assuming this is the way Time<br>Machine and iPhoto now work, how am I supposed to restore individual<br>iPhoto images?<br><br>Regrettably, what you’re seeing is The New Way under Lion. You can no<br>longer enter the iPhoto interface with iPhoto. Instead, Apple tells us<br>that you must restore your entire iPhoto library. Like you, I consider<br>this a huge step backwards, but Apple doesn’t do this kind of thing<br>for the fun of it. If there weren’t a problem with The Old Way in<br>regard to Lion and Time Machine, I’m certain Apple wouldn’t have<br>abandoned it.<br><br>So, you can do it Apple’s Way, navigate to your user folder and then<br>to your Pictures folder (the iPhoto Library directory’s default<br>location), fire up Time Machine, and restore your iPhoto Library. Or<br>you might consider the Sneaky Way.<br><br>Before we don our sneakers, I suggest that you first launch iPhoto and<br>select its Trash folder. Unless you’ve explicitly emptied that Trash,<br>your image is still there. If you have emptied iPhoto’s trash and the<br>image is truly gone, follow along.<br><br>The Sneaky Way is to Control (right) click on the iPhoto Library,<br>choose Show Package Contents from the resulting contextual menu,<br>locate the Masters folder, and navigate down through the nested<br>folders (they’re nested by Year, Month, Day, Some Oddly Named Folder,<br>and then the images for that day). Now fire up Time Machine and go<br>back to a point before you tossed the images. Locate the images you<br>want (you can use Quick Look within Time Machine to find just the<br>images you desire) and restore them.<br><br>When you return to iPhoto, your images won’t be there. You’ll have to<br>dig into the newly updated Masters folder and locate the images you’ve<br>restored. Pull them out of the folder they’ve been moved to and then<br>add them back to iPhoto by dragging them in.<br><br>“But wait!” the sneakiest of you suggest. “Why not also restore all<br>the files within the iPhoto package that have been updated. That way<br>your iPhoto library will return to the state it was in when you first<br>tossed the images!”<br><br>Nicely stated, and this could be a workable solution if you haven’t<br>added any images to iPhoto since you deleted those now longed-for<br>photographs. But if you have added images I can’t help but think that<br>Bad Things could ensue if you’re working with an iPhoto library that<br>has new images and an old database.<br><br>No, best to just leave it at recovering your deleted images and<br>flinging them back into iPhoto as if you were adding new images.<br><br><br><br>The workings of a Stationery Pad<br><br>Reader Jake Tesler has a question about a long-standing OS X feature<br>that few people use. He writes:<br><br>Can you tell me what “stationery pad” does? It’s that little checkbox<br>in a Finder’s Get Info window. I’ve always been curious, but I can’t<br>figure it out.<br><br>The Stationery Pad feature has been around for years. Helpful though<br>it can be, very few people I know use it. And that’s too bad.<br><br>It’s a way of creating a template document. For example, create a<br>blank TextEdit document, save it to the desktop, select it, press<br>Command-I, and enable the Stationery Pad option. Double-click on that<br>document and you generate a copy of it, complete with all of the<br>original document’s content. The original file remains untouched.<br><br>You can do it with any file type but, of course, it’s not useful for<br>all files. For example, it doesn’t do you a lot of good to save most<br>image and movie files as stationery pads.<br><br><br>Killing Lion's autocorrect<br><br>A reader who wishes to remain anonymous may desire that anonymity<br>because he or she doesn’t care to be corrected. The nameless person<br>writes:<br><br>I upgraded to Lion when it first came out and the feature I like least<br>is autocorrect. When typing, my Mac routinely corrects my spelling and<br>often inserts incorrect words. How do I turn this feature off?<br><br>Helpful as I find autocorrect on my iOS devices—where typing is tricky<br>because of a smaller keyboard with no physical feedback—I too find it<br>distracting on my Mac. I can offer a couple of bits of welcome news<br>for those who don’t care for this feature—not all applications support<br>it and, for those that do, it can be turned off.<br><br>To do so, launch System Preferences and select the Language & Text<br>preference. In that preference select the Text tab and disable the<br>Correct Spelling Automatically option. Before you uncork the champagne<br>and go on a tear of intentional misspelling, however, take note: Any<br>applications currently open that support autocorrect will continue to<br>correct your spelling and suggest words to you. To prevent them from<br>doing this you must quit the applications. Relaunch them and<br>autocorrect will be disabled.<br><br><br><br><br>Viewing an old Address Book archive<br><br>Reader Bob Trudeau would like to preview Address Book archives. He writes:<br><br>Is it possible to view an Address Book archive without importing it to<br>Address Book? A while back, I lost all my Address Book content, and<br>since then I’ve been rebuilding and adding manually. I recently<br>discovered an old Address Book archive that might have information I’d<br>like to use in my current Address Book data. But I don’t want to<br>import that old archive at the risk of destroying a lot of new data<br>I’ve added manually.<br><br>Although I’m certain that there are geekier ways to go about this, I’d<br>keep it relatively simple and do this:<br><br>Move your old archive file to the root level of your hard drive.<br>Launch System Preferences, go to the Accounts (Snow Leopard) or Users<br>& Groups (Lion) preference, and create a new account. Log into that<br>new account, launch Address Book, choose File -> Import. You’ll be<br>asked if you’re sure you want to replace the contacts currently in<br>Address Book. As you’ve just created this account, you will have no<br>contacts here other than Apple Computer and your own user card. Go<br>ahead and replace this with the contents of the archive.<br><br>You can now look through the contacts that appear in Address Book.<br>Select those you want that aren’t in the list of contacts within your<br>regular account and drag them to the Desktop to create a vCard that<br>contains these contacts. Then drag that vCard to the root level of<br>your hard drive so that you can easily access it. Now switch back to<br>your regular account and import that vCard.<br><br>The broader lesson here is that having an extra user account to do<br>this kind of thing can be helpful. Whenever you want to perform an<br>action that may endanger the data in your regular user account, switch<br>to the Mucking Around account and do what you will there.<br><br><br><br>"Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Essential Training (video)" from <a href="http://lynda.com">lynda.com</a><br>Find Chris' books at <a href="http://www.amazon.com">www.amazon.com</a> and <a href="http://www.peachpit.com">www.peachpit.com</a>. Get special<br>user group pricing on Macworld Magazine! Subscribe today at http://<br><a href="http://www.macworld.com/useroffer">www.macworld.com/useroffer</a><br><br>VI<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">CTORIA L. HERRING</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">, Travel research & Photography: Images that will transport You, </span></div></blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(44, 0, 163); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://www.journeyzing.com/">www.JourneyZing.com</a></span><span> &<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(44, 0, 163); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><span><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://gallery.journeyzing.com">Online Gallery</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">& Attorney, Discrimination/Employment Law:</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><a href="http://www.herringlaw.com/">www.HerringLaw.com</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0px; ">Upcoming Shows</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">: Mary Greeley Med. Center, Sept & Oct 2011; Deer Path Art in the Square, Lake Forest, IL 9/4-5/11.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><p style="font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "> </span></p></font></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<br></body></html>