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From: hammen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert J. Hammen)
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Subject: Re: Short Cut to Copying Files??
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Date: 24 Aug 89 23:29:03 GMT
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In article <761@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
>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.

I second this notion, having been a user group disk librarian for four years
and having copied thousands (if not millions :-) of files. One thing that makes
things easier: on a color/greyscale Mac II, select all of your items, color
them black, then select the files you want to copy over. Make them a different
color. Do the copy, and then View by Color. You still have to click on each of
the files, but at least the computer "remembers" them for you. Or, create a
folder and drag the files into that folder, then copy them, and then trash the
folder. 

The other major PITA (pain-in-the-*ss) with the Finder is the stupid, unhelpful
"Replace items with the same names with the selected items?" dialog you get
when your destination folder has a file in it with the same name as one you 
are trying to copy to the folder. Since the Finder obviously knows which file
names conflict, then why the bloody hell doesn't the thing tell me!?!?!?!? I
sincerely hope this gets fixed in Finder 7.0 (pmercer, are you listening?).

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