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mac "spaces"

Erika Epstein
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Would any care to share how they are using spaces on the mac?
thanks in advance,
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
AC5-18
Onuma System

"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Pretty simple usage for me. I have dual monitors and have the space below my main desktop set up to be where my Parallels Windows XP VM lives. (You can assign applications to any space [default] or one particular Space.) I have my Stickies set up to show in all Spaces, so that my desktop looks the same in both.

I may run apps in either space... but of course, ArchiCAD doesn't work with Spaces (see other threads), so I have to be careful about switching spaces if AC is running, depending on what it is doing. I would probably use spaces more if AC behaved properly. (There are some reports that some erratic spaces behavior are issues on Apple's side, in GS's defense.)

Cheers,
Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Dwight
Newcomer
Sometimeiusethemtokeepwordsapart.
Dwight Atkinson
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Dwight wrote:
Sometimeiusethemtokeepwordsapart.

One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Erika Epstein
Booster
Karl wrote:
Dwight wrote:
Sometimeiusethemtokeepwordsapart.

Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
AC5-18
Onuma System

"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
Mostly Arranged by tasks

S01= AC, SketchUp
S02= Modo, C4D, Artlantis
S03= Adobe CS 3
S04= Mail, Yojimbo, Yep, MailSteward
S05= Safari, NetNewsWire, Firefox
S06= iWork, Office
S07= Things, On the Job, Superdupper!!
S08= Fusion, Final Cut Studio
S09= Activity Monitor, Console, Terminal

all spaces= iTunes, Quicktime, Finder, VLC, Nice Player, Preview
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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Dwight
Newcomer
So real answer now:

Spaces: Not at all. They seem closed off from one another.

I have so much going on right now with an Archicad project, a public art pitch [Word], the Artlantis book with writing [Word], illustrating [Artlantis and Photoshop and Bridge] and laying out each book article [InDesign]. Then there's research and communication where I'm extracting things from Safari and Mail. It is a big mess on the desktop - the one space I'm using has around fifty windows open.

I manage all this mess with Command-Tab. This function spreads open application icons in a band across mid-screen - twenty-two open right now. It makes it easy to toggle between the last used application that is a frequent demand of mine. It USED to be that when an application came forward ALL of its windows did, but now individual windows interleave beautifully.
Dwight Atkinson
vistasp
Advisor
Are you guys referring to what Win/Lin users call "virtual desktops"?
= v i s t a s p =
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Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
Yes.
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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Chazz
Enthusiast
Dwight wrote:
I manage all this mess with Command-Tab.
This feature was stolen by Apple from Windoze, yet I'm amazed at how few users of either platform actually use it. Command-Tab rocks.

I'm a fellow non spaces user, and proud of it.
Nattering nabob of negativism
2023 MBP M2 Max 32GM. MaxOS-Current

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