My problems on mac

By Lucky girl, 15 May, 2024

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hi everyone.
I don’t like safari so i’v downloaded the chrome from google’s website.
I can open it from the desktop, but i want to open it with launchpad. The problem is i don’t know how to drag and drop the chrome app or if it’s possible to do that with macos sonoma. I’v never used the drag and drop so i need your help.
Also i accidentally disabled the external device on my mac and now i can’t find my flashdrive on the menu when it’s plugged in for some reason

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By Maldalain on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 16:17

For the External Devices, go to Finder preferences by pressing CMD+Comma from there enable external devices. It is in General in the toolbar then navigate to Show these items and tick the External Devices.
For dragging Chrome, I personally set a keyboard commander Options+G to run Google Chrome, this is doable in VoiceOver Utility.

By Lucky girl on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 16:17

Thanks for the help

By Mlth on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 16:17

I prefer putting my most frequently used apps in the dock. You can do that by, when the app is open, accessing the doc with VO+D or ctrl+f3 (if enabled) from there, press VO+shift+M to access the context menu, then "options">"keep in dock". Then you can just go to the dock, type a few letters and press enter every time you want to launch an ap.
The rest of my apps I launch from the applications folder in finder (cmd+shift+a, locate the app, then cmd+down-arrow to open the app in question) which I guess might be an old way of doing it, but I like it.
Edit: Forgot the shift key in the context menu shortcut, fixed now.

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