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What is a Macintosh Good for?
The Macintosh Operating System Tutorial
How to Use the Macintosh OSX Tiger
How to Use the Macintosh Dock
Understanding the Macintosh Dock
How to Create an Alias on a Macintosh
How to Change the Desktop Image on a Mac
How to Rotate the Desktop Image on a Mac
How to Change the Screensaver on a Mac
Understanding Hot Corners on a Mac
Understanding Icons, the Menu Bar, & Spotlight on a Mac
Understanding Color Tags & Ejecting Drives on a Mac
Burning a Data DVD on a Mac
Timers for Start & Shut Off on a Mac
Installing Software on a Macintosh
Switching Applications Short Cuts on a Mac
The Expose Tool for Macintosh Computers
Deleting Files on a Macintosh Hard Drive
Connecting External Hard Drives to a Mac
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Summary: Deleting files on a Macintosh is easy and fun, get an Apple tutorial in this free video.
Tony Passarella has been working with the Mac computer for over 10 years. His experience includes, graphic design, video and film editing. These series are for those new to the mac,...read more
" Hey it is Tony from expertvillage.com we are looking at the Macintosh Os X Tiger. Now here is a little bit of difference between the Mac OS X Tiger any Mac Os X, jaguar, panther, it different from a Pc when you are looking to delete. Basically when you want to delete a file it is not just hitting the delete button. Lets say I want to hit I want to delete this file right here you have to hold down your apple key on the key board and while you are holding that down you just tap the delete button. The bigger delete button which would be known as the back space button on the Pc keyboard. So I'm going to hold down the apple key button and I'm going to hit the delete button and boom right when I do that, that file will now go into my trash. So I just come to my trash and I click the mouse down on the trash can here and it would say empty trash. So to completely wipe away the file now from my hard drive I just select empty trash and it is gone. "
eHow Article: Deleting Files on a Macintosh Hard Drive
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