[tutorial] Home Directory

well first i would like to say i'm not sure this is the right forum (it looks like the left one to me) well anyway to 'make yourself at home' (yes i am in a joking mood today) first rename my documents to Home and copy all of it's contents to the clipboard (except for 'special' folders such as my pictures and my music.) then once it's renamed and it's contents are copied make a new directory called Documents. right click on it and click properties (or if you're like me and are on a macwintosh (not a spelling error. i'm not sure who made up the name macwintosh but i don't think it's me. if it is then i'm going senile at age 12!) well anyway paste all contents of your newly named 'home' folder to the documents folder. if you want to do it the old-sk00l way (drag-and-drop) then go ahead. it won't make a difference. well now you have your documents folder and your home folder. i'm just guessing at the next step. i know it works but i'm not sure these are the correct names. any mac users correct me if i'm wrong. now take the 'my' off of all folders. (ie. my pictures will be renamed to pictures) do this to all 'my' folders. now that you're done with that then we have to give the documents folder an icon. if you have the enhanced version of iconpackager and/or windows xp then you need no additional software. i forgot the name of a program to do this but it was free although it seemed to crash my mom's system a lot (boy was she mad) i'll post a link if i find it. well i'm sure you now have either a copy of windows xp or a program to do this. if not read on and i'll tell you what you need to do: you need to edit the registry and add an icon to c:\documents and settings\%username%\my documents\dockuments. well those programs mentioned earlier will do it for you. it seems to be complicated (and i edit the registry like 4 times a day!) but you'll get it done. i'll be posting another tutorial on how to make your c drive aqua-ish (as good as i can get it) that requires this. well now anyway back to giving your documents folder an icon: right click on it and use one of the menu items there to change the icon. (if you use windows xp it will be on the customize tab under get info or properties. i'm not sure about iconpackager. if you use the one i forgot the name of it's in the program itself. same with this program i DO NOT reccomend that gives windows 98/98se/me/2000 users icons from xp called xp icons (such a creative name)) then change it to your documents folder icon. after that you're done. please post comments so i can make my hoe folder more mac-like such as left-out items, incorrect names, etc.

EDIT: i know how to make an iMovie project files directory too but the only projects icon i have i didn't extract (i didn't extract a single one lol) but anyway make a folder in your new home directory and this time call it iMovie Projects (i am sure that is the wrong name but if it isn't please tell me so) well the icon was extracted by gillbates so...

GILLBATES GET OVER HERE!

#90539

Sumthin' like this?

#90595

...because there's also the "imovie sounds" folder...

#90596

oh there is? i'll edit my tutorial to do that. btw oops i made a mistake. i don't think gillbates made the big panther icon set. correct me if i'm wrong but i posted that at like 2am. btw if it was you gillbates can i have permission to mirror your icon set?

#90719

Or you just use TweakUI and change all the MyDocument type paths to whatever you want, and delete the old ones completely.

Oh, and "drag and drop" is not old school.

copy *.* C:\blah\

#90723

To be perfectly honest, I didn't *make* an iconset, I merely extracted it from panther with some commands from the terminal and then converted the lot of them with IconWorkshop. I also extracted PNG's, TIF's and fonts.

But they have taken down pretty much every free host I have put them on.

Anyone that has 'em has full "permission" to mirror them because like I said I put very little effort into this and they have really no input or artwork of mine except a little elbow grease on the icons to remove the lower color depths, that's why the RAR's have no readme. So go ahead and spread the joy.

#90736

yes. i know you didn't 'make' it. it was too realistic for that. well i can't mirror them (i have dialup. if i get a hub and long wire soon so my mom can share her cable modem i will mirror it all) but i can mirror the few i am talking about.

#90761

/wizard being anal

Do you think you could have a step by step (eg.

1. blah

2. blah blah)

When I see a big block of text I immediatly (sp?) lose consentrasion (sp?).

/End wizard being anal

#90763

Yes...you are twelve, we're old...help us a little.

Regards...bh.

#90772

I'm a little too innebriated(sp) right now to understand exactly what we are mirroring.

But, if we want something mirrored on a high bandwidth server. PM me. As i've said before, my work box has plunty of bandwidth. I connect a 1000mbps hub, which connects through fiber directly to an OC48. I sit on IUPUI's main hub, which is a hub to the Internet2. I can easily download things at 15mbps+ and upload just as quickly. Also, I'm in tight with networking, so they wont ask any questions if i transfer a few gigs in a day. Before they've asked our office why we've transfered over 30 gigs in a weekend. We said "erm.. uhm.. downloading linux iso's." and they laughed and said ok. Meanwhile the VP of IS calls us and asks us if we have.. erm.. "new movies" . HAH

#90788