Spaces...

[Dreambird]

Somehow I manage to delete my spaces and I don't seem to remember how to re-create them... Help?

Thanks,
DB

[jchuzi]

Please explain. I don't understand what you mean.

[Dreambird]

OK... It looks like my info got blown out.

I'm on a 15" MacBook Pro Retina running OS 10.11.6 El Capitan.

I had a row of spaces or desktops on the top that certain apps switched to... I just don't remember how I got them to do that. I think you do it through Mission Control... up top if you swipe up with 3 fingers you can add spaces wit the + sign. But how do you assign the app you want to each? I've just done forgotten... *shrug*

I had one desktop for Finder, one for Firefox and one for iTunes so if I chose one of those it automatically switched to the desktop I had assigned to it. So I don't have everything on top of each other.

[jchuzi]

Explore the options at this Apple search page.

[Dreambird]

This is Mission Control... I don't know if I have the right stuff checked or what...

[Dreambird]

Google seems to be all Sierra etc. I'm on El Capitan...

Well, about all I can do it seems is to add an empty space with the + sign, open the app I want and ctrl + click in the dock and tell it under options to use this display... and that works. It gives me Desktop 1, 2. 3 etc but no name of app.

[Dreambird]

Best I can figure... that's how you do it in El Capitan.

From System Preferences choose Mission Control and click on the question mark and from there you will find instructions to do spaces more or less the way I did.

Assign apps to spaces
If you assign an app (or System Preferences) to a specific space, the app will always open in that space.

Press and hold an app’s icon in the Dock.

You may have to first open the app from Launchpad to see its icon in the Dock.

From the shortcut menu that appears, choose Options, then one of the following:

All Desktops: The app opens in every space.

This Desktop: The app opens only in the current space. If you use the app full screen, it appears in its own space.

Desktop on Display [number]: The app opens in the current space on a specific display (if more than one display is available).

None: The app opens in whichever space you’re using at the time.

By default, when you switch to an app, the desktop automatically switches to a space that has open windows for the app. For example, if you create a new TextEdit document in Desktop 3, but TextEdit windows are already open in Desktop 2, your new document opens in Desktop 2. To change this setting, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Mission Control.

[Dreambird]

Well... I guess... in El Capitan the above is exactly how you do this... Just be careful not to do what I did... if you want to close an app then press the quit for the app... don't hit the X for the space! Duh!

Excuse me please, the brain is a little less foggy now... 

I also did DW and Onyx just because they haven't been for a long time.