**The "Official" N00b Needs Help Thread**

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As inspired by EVH's comment on someone's help thread, I've decided to create this thread for all Mac users to post their problems/encounters whilst using their Mac Hardware / Equipment and allow an "under one thread" problem solving help thread. (For Software issue, click here)

Here's how to use it;

1) Identify your problem
2) Read/search this thread for similar problem
3) If not answered or not found post Problem or Encounter before typing your problem as fully as possible.
4) Wait patiently for the next few posters to reply/answer your problem.

Posters answering questions must quote the problem post and reply with Answer - this allows user to quickly spot the "Problem" and "Answer" in your post, instead of reading random comment/spam when people quoting the issue/problem.

e.g.
Dr Pharmacology said:
Problem
I can't find the # button...
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Answer
Option+3


NOTE
Please refrain from posting/quoting unless you're answering the Problem - it is common courtesy to thank if problem is solved but 30 thank you will cost this thread 1 page and push problems/answers away from the much needed n00b
You are however, allowed to quote and correct the Answer if it is wrong / incorrect.

Hope this thread will come in useful:)
 
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i've got two for ya...

1) my macbook seems really perky doing everything, on the whole i'm very impressed, however... one thing which seems to stick out like a sore thumb performance wise is scrolling and resizing windows, if i drag out a browser window which is running maybe a quicktime vid, it is delayed and really slow, and there are a fair few cases when this happends non-browser aswell... is there some silly setting controlling this maybe? its puzzling cuz it does it when the computer is running crisp as anything with no lag!

2) when i shut my macbook, it used to go to sleep really quick (like within a second) now it takes maybe 20 seconds... any idea why?
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
i've got two for ya...

1) my macbook seems really perky doing everything, on the whole i'm very impressed, however... one thing which seems to stick out like a sore thumb performance wise is scrolling and resizing windows, if i drag out a browser window which is running maybe a quicktime vid, it is delayed and really slow, and there are a fair few cases when this happends non-browser aswell... is there some silly setting controlling this maybe? its puzzling cuz it does it when the computer is running crisp as anything with no lag!
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Don't hold me 100% accurate on this, but I believe this is down to the way OS X resizes windows and the way it does it in 'real-time'. There were some major problems with this back in earlier versions of OS X, where basically the problem was much worse and it was much more laggy. Couple that with the rather poor graphics chip on the macbook and that would explain why this happens.

It happens to me all the time on my macbook. I also gets quite laggy with lots of windows on exposé or spaces overview!
 
Ok i have a noob question. In finder how do i select a number of files a once. In windows you would just click on the first file, hold shift, then click on the last one. ive tried doing it with shift and cmd to no avail. So can it be done and if so how.
 
hyper_piper45 said:
Ok i have a noob question. In finder how do i select a number of files a once. In windows you would just click on the first file, hold shift, then click on the last one. ive tried doing it with shift and cmd to no avail. So can it be done and if so how.
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Yeah you hold down Command. Are you sure your pressing the right key..?

Edit: yay it's a sticky.
 
Seems i have a graphics problem when in windows via boot camp on my iMac, i have a stripes flickering across my screen anyone else heard of this and how to deal with it? oh and its more noticable against dark back grounds
 
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Click the first file, then press and hold cmd and click the others you wish to select.
 
Whats a good program for creating rar files. I had a bit of a google but it all involves a lot of faffing about , there must be a winrar equivalent on mac?

Also how can i look into .zip or .rar files without it extracting all the files,
eg. say i want to extract just a few of the archived files , not all of them.
 
Ol!ver said:
Any way to do it like in Windows, where you click the first file, hold shift and click the last one to select everything in-between?
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It's the same as Windows ;)

Click the top file, hold shift and click the bottom file.
 
Just got another one for you guys. Not really a n00b question but I didn't think it required it's own thread.

I have the trackpad scroll on my MBP set to almost full sensitivity so I can fly down pages with as little finger movements as possible. When ever I plug in an external mouse this setting is reverted back to default. none of the other mouse settings change, just the scroll.

Is there any way to keep it set to high sensitivity so that when I unplug my mouse I don't have to change the sensitivity settings for scrolling with the track pad?

Cheers

Panzer
 
Have you enabled "disable trackpad when mouse is detected" ?

Try that, and see if it affects trackpad scroll-speed.
 
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