control of the system

[egypturnash]

People with Macs and Adobe CS2: annoyed at the fact that Adobe insists on putting that 'Adobe Help Center' thing in your Applications directory, and won't let you access the help from within Photoshop/Illustrator/etc if you move it?

Go to /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Launch/helpcenter/1.0 and get info on the 'Adobe Help Center' alias. Open up the ownership and permissions section, change its ownership to you (you have to be an admin user for this), then hit 'select new original' and navigate to wherever you moved the Help Center app to. (Like, say, a subdirectory of Applications with all your art tools.)

Now change the ownership of this alias back to 'system' and bingo, f1 summons help again. Don't even have to relaunch anything.

I think I miss type and creator codes.

Comments

[secretagentmoof]

Oh, the underlying OS was certainly more fragile, with the cooperative multitasking, lack of memory protection, non-autosizing, etc. I don't miss that at all; I miss the ease/cleanliness of the user interface, which (IMVHO) they severely skullfucked.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

The interface was cute and clean and certainly looked nicer than (insert any other operating system), but I suppose Apple wanted a candy-coated interface to match the glossy plastic casing.

I rather like having a nice BSD system available without sacrificing a good UI, though. I never had a Mac before OS X, so I'm grateful for what I have.