Fake desktop (so I can store information in it)?
Hi All,
I'd really like to have a desktop like space (maybe one that I can toggle to somehow) where I can store current projects that I am working on. I find it really a bump in the road to have to look at these in a normal Finder window.
At the same time about a year into moving to mac, I realized that my MacPro slows to a crawl (literally) when I put too much data on the desktop.
Is there a really easy way to do this? If it involves Expose or Spaces can anyone point me to a down and dirty explanation to get this going?
Thanks
Jonathan
Hi Thomas.
Thanks for the help.
Can you help me with what you mean by too many open windows? I'm coming from a PC environment and my MacPro has in the past "churned" (the hard drive sounds like it is being read) and I think I finally isolated this to folders on the desktop with a large amount of information.
You are saying that the /amount/ of information or the amount of files in a folder on the desktop is not an issue it is the /number/ of folders - because these are open windows?
What is the issue with open windows on Mac?
Also, does this also apply to open software? I mean, at what point do I start to think about closing software? Say I have Pages, Numbers, Safari and four or five other software open. Is this an issue?
Lastly, I have a hard time understanding how this all works. Can you explain it a little more? I can't figure out if you are talking just plain old Finder windows here or if you are using something special. "Project based folders that can be open in each relevant space..."? What is the relevant space? I'm a little confused on how to rethink all this...
but you may also wish to have project-based folders that can be open in each relevant space so that items for the project you're working on are all filed away in the right place as you work on them. My personal work style usually involves two windows in column view, tiled one above the other. This allows very quick access to what I need as well as access to one side of the desktop for a short-term repository for things that are temporary or that I haven't figured out where to file.
Thanks again...
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