Conceptualizing Desktop

[Anne Keller-Smith]

Hi,

I just don't seem to be able to conceptualize my OSX desktop.

For example, in my mind, my OS9 desktop looked like this:

Desktop:Hardrive:Folders:Files

Obviously the Desktop was a contrivance within the Hard Drive,
but visually and functionally it was the above.

Now on OSX, there's more than one Desktop it seems. There's
my OSX Desktop, which is inside Users? Where is my Home
related to all the above? I'm trying to open a file and it's not on
"Desktop" and then I realize it's the OSX Desktop and have to
fish around for the OS9 Desktop folder.

Anyone seen a visual schema that helps users conceptualize
this? I haven't used the "Computer-Home-Favorites-Documents"
icons much because although I know from the textbook what
they represent, none of them shows me my whole hard
drive like I am used to. They also show no OS9/Classic
files.

I have only one user on the machine, me.

P.S.: I made an alias for my main OS9 files so they'd be right
where I left them in OS9, it's everything on my OS9 Desktop.
I called it "Desk Drawer." Now it's not viewable on my OSX
Desktop, so I made an alias and put it there. I can open it
in OSX now and get files out of it instead of using Sherlock.
But I can't open files from within a program, the alias will
not open. Any ideas?

I also made an alias of the Classic Hard Drive contents because
I can't see any of these files from X either.

Right now my hackaround is to move the file from "Desk Drawer"
to the OSX Desktop and open it from within the program from
there. But that's clumsy, having to move things back and forth
like that.

Thanks in advance,

Anne Keller Smith
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