Dear mrmacfixit,
SUBJECT ONE
I finally succeeded in the task for which you wrote the original instruction in your 12/3/2013 4:27 PM post.
I traveled the path ~/Users/[my name]/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
I did not open Bookmarks.plist.
I don't think I closed Safari. (Too weary [see below] to go back and check now.)
I activated Time Machine, and had it return to 1:30 AM today or hereabouts.
Then highlighted Bookmarks.plist.
I did not click on Restore because there was no need to:
Reason: Earlier I had discovered the folder missing from the Bookmarks folders list--my accidental misplacing of which started this whole thing. (The mishap: I had accidentally jerked the folder across the vertical bar just right of of the bookmark folders column, into the larger of the two areas, where all the individual bookmarks within a given folder appear. Eventually I noticed the missing folder, out of place amongst a long list of bookmarked sites/links, and I just dragged that folder leftward, back across the vertical line, and restored it to alpha order in the list.
SUBJECT TWO
Is there a way to deactivate INDIVIDUAL keyboard shortcuts? There are two I would love to eliminate, because I'm just a two-finger-peck typist who makes many mistakes, and wastes time over and over again negating the unwanted action my misdirected peck causes. The two are:
1) In Word, in Microsoft Office 2004 (and 200
for Mac, the one that causes the second and subsequent lines of a paragraph to be indented. Normally in my letters & other documents I don't want second & subsequent lines indented. Undoing the unwanted indenting is time-consuming.
2) When I'm on line, the one that activates the Top Sites feature.
Today I hit that shortcut, whatever it is, by accident five or six times, got the Top Sites screen. Within that screen, never saw the one I'd been typing, that is, not amongst the thumbnails shown, and couldn't figure out how to reverse the action without getting kicked out, so had to start the post all over again..........5- 6 times, not exaggerating. Very aggravating.
Eventually I composed this in Text Edit, and pasted that into the reply box, hoping to avoid triggering Top Sites.
Maybe an alternate way is to turn off Top Sites somehow? Or if that is an App, put it in Trash?
SUBJECT THREE
How do I log onto this particular forum in cnet? The home page has so many things it overwhelms me. Fortunately I get the emails indicating you or another helper has replied, and I reach this forum fairly quickly.
But what if, say a month later, I'd like to request help? Now I need the link for the How to Forum. Sufficeient floundering will eventually do the trick, I suppose; after all, I did reach this site somehow for the first time yesterday . But I hope you can supply it so that I can bookmark it.