I have been working with computers for over 20 years, and what irritates me about the current crop of operating systems is how restrictive they are. The Macs many years ago could be figured out intuitiviely, and there was always a "quick and dirty" fix you could implement. No longer. For many years the Mac's operating system has been as restrictive as their imitator, Windows, was, and continues to become.
For example, you buy a digital camera, and you install the applications that come with it to your hard drive. Forever afterward, whenever you hook up your camera in order to download pictures, you'll get a dialog box that says, "What do you want to do" and it will give you a list of things to do, including downloading photos into a folder which you will never be able to find again.
I don't like the computer doing things like that. I tell the computer where I want my photos downloaded.
So I close out of the dialog box, open up the camera's memory, and copy over the pictures manually into the folders that I desire.
(The existance of the My Documents folder, into which every document you create ends up, also annoys me. I don't need that. You don't need that. You create your own folders for your documents, and instead of your document defaulting to My Documents when you save it, you should be able to tell the computer where you want to place it.
Well, this is a bit of a rant and all will become clear very shortly, as how to download photos onto your computer is one of the first topics I'll cover.
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