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![]() The Installer, under Mac OS X, is located in Applications > Utilities > Installer.app. The Installer would be installed on every Mac OS X computer, and it would run from the hard drive. Whereas the Classic Mac OS used to include the Installer application along with the to-be-installed software bundle, Mac OS X includes only the software bundle as a package. The Apple Installer appears as a centralised application programme under Mac OS X. The Apple Installer in action under Mac OS X ![]() It now is an "umbrella" installer, including routine that had to be otherwise independently executed, such as disk checks. The Apple Installer continued to evolve under Mac OS 7.6. It also offered the option of a clean install. Instead of being a dialogue box, it became a separate window, with title bars, resizable windows, and even info buttons and the hierarchical triangular list view copied from the Finder. If the installer asks to unlock your disk, enter the password that you use to log in to your Mac. Click Continue, then follow the onscreen instructions. Reinstalling macOS doesn't remove your personal data. The Apple Installer evolved under System 7.5 - greatly. When you see a window with the option to reinstall macOS, your Mac has started up from Recovery. Multiple selection of individual items in a Custom Install (as opposed to an Easy Install had to be done - trickily - by pressing the Shift key. It did not permit the user to switch back to the Finder once it was launched. You can then open the new file in whatever application you’d like.The Apple Installer was a dialogue box under earlier versions of the system. Consider it a reversal of the usual Mac workflow: Instead of creating a new file within an application and, when you save it, navigating to the folder where you want to store it, you’re creating the file where you want it first. Supply one then click Continue your new file should appear.Īt least one Hints reader wondered why, exactly, you’d want to do this in the first place. A dialog should appear requesting a filename. Control-click on an existing file within that folder and select Create New File from the Services submenu. To test it, in the Finder go to the folder where you want to create a new file. Save the service and give it a name (Create New File or whatever else you like). (This will allow you to specify the names of new files.) Click the New Text File’s Options button and select Show This Action When the Workflow Runs. Drag the variable you just created (CurrentFolder) from the Variable panel at the bottom of the Automator window to the Where section of the New Text File action. ![]() Follow that with the New Text File action (from the Text section of the Actions library). ![]()
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