How do I use spaces in Mountain Lion?

Thanks for mentioning the left side tip. It took me an hour to find this post and being able to add a space. I don't even know what they were thinking on making changes such as that. Especially since the button is hidden!!! Talking about unintuitiveness.

Alright, the real question here is why did Apple take away a perfectly useful feature? Kind of makes one scratch your head, doesn't it? "Spaces" was a really good feature that many of us use. I know of companies that use iMacs and refuse to upgrade beyond Snow Leopard because they will not have Spaces. These work arounds, or kludges, are simply not very good at fixing what Apple screwed up. Sure, there are some ways to move a specific application to another space in Mt. Lion, but that is not the solution at all. Many of us use Spaces to move documents we are working on, spreadsheets, and open applications on a different desktop/Space. That way you can switch to one desktop Space for whatever thing you are working on, and then switch back to another desktop/Space for other things, all while keeping them separate and orderly. I've often had to move a specific document or spreadsheet from one Space to another Space, and it works great (in Snow Leopard) Whoever the idiot was at Apple that came up with the whole "mission control" idea, should be, well........strongly talked to. The removal of Spaces was a complete and abysmal failure. You are never supposed to take away from a software's functionality, but are supposed to "add" to it's functionality. And yes, Apple does read these posts.

It's all part of the insessant dumbing down of the interface: take away useful features and make it like a tablet.

Mission Control and Launchpad are utterly useless on a full-sized desktop. OK IMHO.

Spaces is far more effective and worked as one would expect with full screen.

Now that the idiot Scott Forstall has returned home to his village, with a bit of luck we can have our desktops back. But it's been nearly three years and there's no sign of relenting.

It's a pity we can't have something like the "Classic Shell" which makes Windows 8/2012 usable. I'd pay money to have Spaces back.

thomjw wrote:

You are never supposed to take away from a software's functionality, but are supposed to "add" to it's functionality. And yes, Apple does read these posts.

I didn't get the memo, nor see it in the 'laws of computing'. Spaces has gone. Dropped two years ago. Most have dealt with it and moved on. A few can't.

Perhaps join the others here

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3202271

It hasn't brought back spaces, but it seems to make them feel better to rant here.

And would like to see your evidence that 'Apple does read these posts'.

Thanks

Pete

Why does everyone act like spaces is gone? I just switched from my 2009 air to a 13 inch pro I just bought and it has spaces.... it just looks different and is accessed by mission control. Read this article I found and it will explain it. Spaces are in a row across the top and I access all of them by my hot corner mission control.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2030601/why-you-should-use-mountain-lions-spaces .html

Tip: You can also use a four-finger swipe to the left and right on the trackpad to switch between them.

@cadolfi

Some people don't realize how to access spaces right off the bat. When you activate Mission Control initially, you only see the one "space" and the Dashboard "space." If you're a person who is not inclined to "explore" with the mouse cursor, you might not realize that you can add additional spaces (which is required in order for the spaces feature to actually work) via the hidden tab which appears only when the cursor approaches the right edge of the screen.

I.e., the spaces functionality is essentially hidden.

Hi guys, i have os x 10.8.4, i tried following the instructions in the forum but i dont see a + button in the upper right corner in mission control. Do i need to do something to activate this button.

@igoddie You have to move the cursor to the upper right hand corner for the "+" tab to appear.

izaakm is correct. The new screen will appear with the + sign when you move your cursor up to the top right corner. This will only happen when you are in Mission Control or F3.

izaakm's got it right, but it took me shamefully longer than it should to figure out.

There is a "plus" window tab that appears in the top right of Mission Control. I thought–I'm sure other have as well–this all had to be done in System Preferences's Mission Control.

For those like me, you have activate Mission Control itself, then hover in the top right of the screen until a translucent window tab juts out. Click that to add Spaces.

Crisis averted.