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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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hey guys, I know this is the dumbest possible question, but I'm trying to help my mother delete a bunch of downloaded documents on her Mac, but I cannot for the fucking life of me find the goddamn download folder. I've even used the search utility. Where the hell is the download folder located on a Mac, and how to I access it so I can delete these stupid files?!?!
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Hacker
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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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This is why I use windows
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Ermac
Title: Thread Killer
Joined: Aug 04 2008
Location: Outworld
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if you using safari try this
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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| This is why I use windows |
No fucking shit. (No sarcasm towards you.)
Mom actually uses firefox. but really, I just need the folder that is the default--she hasn't changed it.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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SoldierHawk,
I would be happy to help you with this.
What OS is she running and which web browser?
They all put files in different places.
Hacker, you are unhelpful at best with a comment like that.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Firefox 3.x:
Click the Firefox Menu
Click Preferences...
Click the Main tab
The folder where files are saved will be listed next to the choice "Save files to" under Downloads
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Ermac
Title: Thread Killer
Joined: Aug 04 2008
Location: Outworld
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Go to tools > options > main
and see where it's selected to download to. If you didn't change it, it should be the default location
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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I'm glad the question wasn't how do I right click? 
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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| I'm glad the question wasn't how do I right click? |
Lmao. I'm bad with Macs--not that bad.
GP, thanks so much for the offer. I finally figured it out though--for whatever reason it was downloading into the shared folder. Cleaned it out and got it taken care of.
Thanks for the responses, guys. Really appreciate it.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
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I hate helping my parents with computer stuff. I really don't know why since I worked as a computer lab tech for like 3 years at my local community college and helped students with computers and computer programs all the time. Maybe it is because it is my parents and they to put it nicely don't know much about computers.
One time my mom was trying to get some program to work and I happened to be over for dinner and she wanted me to see if I could get it working. I got it working like nothing. I was like "You need to double click the icon."
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| SoldierHawk wrote: |
| Blackout wrote: |
| I'm glad the question wasn't how do I right click? |
Lmao. I'm bad with Macs--not that bad.
GP, thanks so much for the offer. I finally figured it out though--for whatever reason it was downloading into the shared folder. Cleaned it out and got it taken care of.
Thanks for the responses, guys. Really appreciate it. |
No prob, glad you figured it out.
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Lottel
Title: of the Eternal BWOG
Joined: Sep 02 2008
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See, I've found a method where everyone respects my computer knowledge but I never have to help them. The entire time I do something (which usually only takes a few minutes or so) I just remark to myself (while they are still in earshot) how EASY this is. And how I can't believe they were having trouble with this, etc.
Then when they get back in, I tell them to watch and I show them all the steps I did. So they can do it in the future. And if they want help with a program, I tell either I don't use that version or some other kind of bullshit.
I am a horrible person. Yes. But I don't often get bugged for shit. And I've finally gotten my grandma to look up stuff on the internet or use logic when she clicks the mouse instead of clicking over and over again on the wrong icon.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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| IceWarm wrote: |
I hate helping my parents with computer stuff. I really don't know why since I worked as a computer lab tech for like 3 years at my local community college and helped students with computers and computer programs all the time. Maybe it is because it is my parents and they to put it nicely don't know much about computers.
One time my mom was trying to get some program to work and I happened to be over for dinner and she wanted me to see if I could get it working. I got it working like nothing. I was like "You need to double click the icon." |
Omg. *bows to technical guru* 
My mom is actually usually pretty good about it. The only thing that irritates me is when I'm trying to fix something on her Mac by intuition (just poking around and seeing what I can do, since I don't know the OS well) and we have the following conversation:
Her: No, let ME do it so I learn how. Just tell me what to do.
Me: I don't KNOW what to do yet, I'm trying to figure it out.
Her: No, let me, just tell me what to do.
Me: I'm just working off my gut. I don't have anything to tell you until I actually figure it out.
Her: NO! I NEED TO PRACTICE!
Me: Okay, fine, here. *hands over computer*
Her: Where are you going?? I don't know what to do unless you walk be through it!
Me: *sigh*
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lavalarva
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My mom is better than me with computers. Last year she bought computers my school was getting rid of and gave them to people she knew. They didn't know anything about computers so she had to install windows and some programs, then reinstall it again when they deleted system32.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| SoldierHawk wrote: |
| IceWarm wrote: |
I hate helping my parents with computer stuff. I really don't know why since I worked as a computer lab tech for like 3 years at my local community college and helped students with computers and computer programs all the time. Maybe it is because it is my parents and they to put it nicely don't know much about computers.
One time my mom was trying to get some program to work and I happened to be over for dinner and she wanted me to see if I could get it working. I got it working like nothing. I was like "You need to double click the icon." |
Omg. *bows to technical guru*
My mom is actually usually pretty good about it. The only thing that irritates me is when I'm trying to fix something on her Mac by intuition (just poking around and seeing what I can do, since I don't know the OS well) and we have the following conversation:
Her: No, let ME do it so I learn how. Just tell me what to do.
Me: I don't KNOW what to do yet, I'm trying to figure it out.
Her: No, let me, just tell me what to do.
Me: I'm just working off my gut. I don't have anything to tell you until I actually figure it out.
Her: NO! I NEED TO PRACTICE!
Me: Okay, fine, here. *hands over computer*
Her: Where are you going?? I don't know what to do unless you walk be through it!
Me: *sigh*
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I think you just captured the essence of family computing assistance.
I have been a computer technician for the last 10 years and prior to that I did the same shit without getting paid for it... but my mom still does this exact same routine with me. Granted I usually do know what to tell her to do, but it doesn't change the fact that sometimes the driver should be the one with the experience when fixing a problem.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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I think you just captured the essence of family computing assistance.
I have been a computer technician for the last 10 years and prior to that I did the same shit without getting paid for it... but my mom still does this exact same routine with me. Granted I usually do know what to tell her to do, but it doesn't change the fact that sometimes the driver should be the one with the experience when fixing a problem. |
Oh my god. You have no idea how happy you just made me, seriously. I thought it was just me and my family lol.
Now, I'm no computer technician or anything approaching it, but I know my way around Windows pretty well, and have good instincts when it comes to figuring stuff out mechanically or technically. (Granted I sometimes crash and burn, but such is the price of being an amateur.) I'm absolutely the go-to person in my family for comp assistance, hooking up cables, setting up networks, or whatever. When they just let me sit back and do the work, no sweat. But when they try to muscle in and give directions...your analogy was perfect. Its like trying to yank the wheel from a driver.
What I don't get is, they would never second guess like their car mechanic or something. Why do they do it to us..??
On another note, I'm curious now...what kind of computer work did you do?
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GPFontaine
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I think you just captured the essence of family computing assistance.
I have been a computer technician for the last 10 years and prior to that I did the same shit without getting paid for it... but my mom still does this exact same routine with me. Granted I usually do know what to tell her to do, but it doesn't change the fact that sometimes the driver should be the one with the experience when fixing a problem. |
Oh my god. You have no idea how happy you just made me, seriously. I thought it was just me and my family lol.
Now, I'm no computer technician or anything approaching it, but I know my way around Windows pretty well, and have good instincts when it comes to figuring stuff out mechanically or technically. (Granted I sometimes crash and burn, but such is the price of being an amateur.) I'm absolutely the go-to person in my family for comp assistance, hooking up cables, setting up networks, or whatever. When they just let me sit back and do the work, no sweat. But when they try to muscle in and give directions...your analogy was perfect. Its like trying to yank the wheel from a driver.
What I don't get is, they would never second guess like their car mechanic or something. Why do they do it to us..??
On another note, I'm curious now...what kind of computer work did you do? |
If you browse through some posts you'll see lots of different answers I have given.
But the short of it...
Hardware for PCs/Macs
Webdesign
Purchasing Advice
Software Deployment
OS Deployment
Repairs, Upgrades, Optimizations
Data Recovery
Backups
Photo editing
Limited Programming
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