I was just migrated from a Windows machine to an Apple, which I was told would be seamless, but it's pretty seamy...
My tech (i.e., husband) told me I should drag-and-drop icons to the desktop to create a shortcut, since there's no dropdown-menu item saying "create shortcut." However, all that did was move the file out of its logical spot into the desktop folder. That is absolutely not what I want.
I'm having a hard enough time sorting folders by date or reverse alpha sort. I don't know whether that's even possible using an Apple, but my first problem is the desktop shortcut. For ergo-medical reasons, I definitely don't want to be navigating to my favorite folders, and I don't want to move them out of their logical places.