I can't keep more than one window open. For example, I started this topic, went to another window to look for something, and this window completely disappeared. i obviously have turned off something, or there is a quirk in 10.4.2 that I haven't yet learned. What am I missing?
If I understand what you are saying, it sounds like the behavior you get with a multi-button mouse, when one button is set for option-click and you use that button. If you have a multi-button mouse you'll need to check its preferences to see if something went awry (and I have seen someone this happened to). If you don't have such a mouse I'm not sure what has happened. Do you have a test user, and does that account behave the same way?
Francine
no, I use an apple pro mouse. I have done some reading in "help"--and the best I can find is that I must hit "new window" each time I want another window to open. This seems very cumbersome. It seems to be a phenomenon of 10.4 as I didn't experience this with 10.2.8. I went directly to 10.4, and upgraded to 10.4.2 immediately.
I'd also like to know the answer to that question. I use Photoshop CS2 and need to keep several windows open at the same time. Doesn't work with Tiger. Only 1 window open at a time.
Also, speaking of mice, does anyone know of a mouse I could use with my iBook?
There is an option in the Finder preferences (click the desktop and select Preferences from the Finder menu at the top next to the apple) that determines whether a new window is opened each time you click a folder in the Finder. Could this be the problem or is this happening with other applications other than the Finder?
Thanks for the info. I can't imagine working in photoshop with one window at a time. There has to be a "fix" for this somewhere; however your information certainly confirmed my own frustrations.
Re the ibook mouse: I assume you must be using a G3 ibook since you list system 9. I would think any usb mouse compatible with apple would work. Old mice: try e-Bay or amazon.com. There is a warehouse in southern California, (LA) which stocks old computer stuff--lots and lots of mac things. (I got a rom drive for a 9500 that I donated when I could not find it anywhere else.
Ruth Miller
I'm having trouble in understanding exactly what you mean. In all "work" apps you should be able to have as many windows open as you wish. In which applications do you experience the disappearing windows?
Ruth, are you using Safari? Did your Safari window disappear? Is this happening when you switch from one app to another or from one window to another in the same app? Have you enable Tabs in your browser preferences? It is much simpler to navigate between tabs in one browser window than to go from window to window, and you can always see which tabs are open on the tab bar.
I was referring to Photoshop windows and after I changed the setting, it now opens multiple windows. I should know better because I've used PS since version 2. Anyway, thanks.
Ruth, I use Tiger on all my computers. I hadn't changed the setting which is why it read as OS9.2.
I use Netscape 7.2 and it won't open more than 1 window at a time. I see nothing about that in the prefs for Netscape so maybe the answer is in another set of prefs. In the old Netscape I could have several windows open at once while I was checking something online. I don't use Safari. But sometimes Safari opens automatically when I want to download a file. Wierd.
I use Safari--sometimes the window disappears and sometimes it doesn't. Under Tabbed Browsing--open a link in a new tab, nothing happened. Apple, shift, click--went immediately to this message that I am now writing. At the moment, I have 5 windows open including Firefox which I sometimes use as a browser, particularly to read files, web pages, etc. sent from some Microsoft powered source which Safari sometimes won't read. I believe that what I had not done was hit "Always show tab bar." Hope so, anyway. Yes sometimes Safari windows have disappeared, but hopefully I have solved the problem. Thank you for your help
Ruth Miller
PS: I didn't check the "+" when I sent the message. So I am adding it now. I think that checking the "always show tab bar" was the help that finally made all things possible. As is probably evident, I really still try to operate as if all things on Mac are intuitive. There is nothing about OS X that is intuitive. I am being forced to learn shortcuts and commands that I never expected to use. I went to the Mac while trying to learn DOS on a 286 level pc. A computer nerd I am not.
Thanks for your help.
I'm happy that the situation has improved. I'm still a little confused. I can't quite follow what you are doing. Anyway, in Safari the shortcut to open links in a new tab, which is what I use the whole time if I don't want to close the window I am on, is Command (Apple) + T.
Sorry, I must be tired. I just realized that I gave completely the wrong shortcut in the previous post. Cmd + T just opens a new tab, and has no connection to any links. To open a link in a new tab you Cmd + click the link.
