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heading to remove them and print a completely blank calendar. By selecting
a higher number in the Months counter, you can print as many months as
you want from the current month onward. Each will be printed on a separate
sheet. If your printer is capable of printing bigger sizes of paper, select this
from the Paper drop-down list.
Tip 169
Keep a Folder Update Log
If you have a folder containing files that multiple users of your Mac access
on a regular basis, you can make it so a dialog box showing a message pops
up whenever the folder is accessed. Users can then add their own comments
to the message (that is, something like “2/23/2013—Added some image files”),
forming a log that describes who did what to the contents of the folder and
why. You could even use this if you're the only person using the Mac to remind
yourself of additions or edits!
You can set this up as follows:
1.
Right-click the folder and select Get Info from the menu that appears.
This trick uses the Spotlight Comments field of the Info dialog box to store
the comments, and it's necessary to add something to start off with.
Something like the date, followed by
SETUPFOLDERLOGGING
, will be sufficient.
2.
Close the info window, right-click the folder, and select from the menu
that appears Folder Actions Setup (or possibly Services→Folder Actions
3.
In the Choose a Script to Attach dialog box that appears, select
OPEN-SHOW
COMMENTSINDIALOG.SCPT
. Then close the dialog box.
Setup is now complete. When anybody opens the folder, a dialog box will
appear where they can either click OK to dismiss the dialog, click the Open
Comments button to add comments to the log (which will simply open the
info window where they can type into the Spotlight Comments field, as earlier;
to create a new line when typing, hold down
OPTION
), or click Clear Comments,
which will wipe clean the Spotlight Comments field. Note that the dialog box
stays on-screen for only a few seconds before it automatically dismisses itself.
Note also that if you choose to clear the comments, the dialog won't appear
