Hiding and showing windows on the desktop

You can hide all windows except those of the active program by choosing

Hide Others from the Application menu.

The other programs remain open even though their windows are hidden.

When you switch to another program, its windows become visible again.

If you want to see all the open windows, choose Show All from the

Application menu.

Backing up your files

Making backup copies of important files is good protection against possible damage to the originals.

mYour hard disk contains disk images of system software and most application programs that came with your computer. You can make disks from these images by using the FloppyMaker application program. See “Making Software Disks” in Chapter 1 for instructions.

mYou can back up an entire floppy disk by copying it to another floppy disk, or to a hard disk.

mYou can use a commercial backup program to copy new and changed files from a hard disk to another hard disk, to a tape drive, or to a series of floppy disks.

mIf your computer is on a network, you can back up files by copying them to a shared disk on the network.

mYou can back up files by copying them from one computer to the other using SCSI disk mode. (See “Using Your Macintosh PowerBook as a Hard Disk” in Chapter 4 for more information on SCSI disk mode.)

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