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From: phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Short Cut to Copying Files??
Message-ID: <761@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Aug 89 10:52:48 GMT
References: <20203.24EFBA02@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <34180@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University
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>>Many times when I copy a file from one disk to another, I wonder if there
>>isn't a shortcut instead of dragging the icon from one disk to another
>>followed by trashing the icon from the place it came from. I think that
>>most times I trash the icon from the place it came from.... so how come
>>that isn't the default case??
> 
> 
In article <34180@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> Well, about 60% of the time I don't. If you think about it, I'd rather the
> default be to not delete a file (force an extra action to delete data)
> rather than automatically deleting a file (force an action to precent
> deletion). That's a *lot* safer.

Well, I think that the finder would be improved if, after selecting files for
copying etc., when the copy is completed the files remained selected.  At the
moment they un-select.  This would make it easier to drag them to the trash
afterwards if that's what you want, and wouldn't make life any more difficult
otherwise.  I have copied and then deleted multiple files a number of
times, and it is a complete pain to have to make the re-selection - especially
if the selected file are not grouped together in the window.
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