Working with windows – Apple Macintosh PowerBook 150 User Manual

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Removing items from the disk and retrieving them from the Trash

To do this

Follow these steps

Erase or remove

1. Drag the icon to the Trash.

an item from a disk

2. Choose Empty Trash from the Special menu.

Retrieve an item

1. Open the Trash icon.

from the Trash

2. Before you choose Empty Trash from the Special Menu,

drag the icon out of the Trash (and into the disk or folder window where
you want to store it). Or, choose Put Away from the File menu to
return the icon to its original place on a disk.

Working with windows

A window opens when you double-click an icon. A window usually shows
you what’s inside an icon.

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Click the zoom box

to resize a window.

Click the close box to
close a window.

Move the scroll box up or down
to view the contents of a window
that you can’t see. The gray in
the scroll bar indicates that there
are contents of the window that
you cannot see.

Click the scroll arrows to view
contents that you cannot see.

This is a window showing

you what’s on the hard disk

named “Macintosh HD.”

Drag the size box to

enlarge or reduce

the window.

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