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Subject: Re: finder irritations
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Date: 18 Oct 89 01:47:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 17 Oct 89 09:40:30 GMT

In article <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

> I have two major irritations when using the finder:

> 1. You have two folders open and you want to transfer or
> copy a file from one to the other. You click on the file
> you want to move and then its window comes to the front
> which totally obliterates your view of the destination folder.
> Yuck! it would have been easier to use DOS or UNIX.

Drag the destination folder out to the Desktop, drag your file into it,
then use Put Away from the File menu. There's a command key for it, or
if there isn't stick one in there with ResEdit. Better yet, get a real
file maintenance utility, specifically CE Software's DiskTop, which is a
DA that does everything the Finder does except icons.

Apple knows about the many problems with the Finder interface. There are
rumors that System 8.0 will address them in a very big way. Mostly I
hear that the Standard File (Open dialog) interface will be somehow
unified with the Desktop (Finder) interface, probably at the expense of
the former. Remember that the Finder was written with non-hierarchical
400K disks in mind.

> 2. When using multifinder typically you have a lot of windows
> open for whatever applications you're using. If you go to the
> desktop these windows block out your view of the trashcan. It
> feels pretty bad when you can't even remove files.

Learn to manage your windows. [ aside: Smart applications (Word, f'rinstance)
don't open new windows that cover up the vertical strip of screen that
the Trash lives in. ] Better yet (again), get DiskTop. When you become a
"power user" (which the Mac was supposed to make obsolete, but tough for
the visionaries, dammit), the Trash can metaphor will only frustrate
you, because nothing REALLY gets deleted when it goes into the Trash,
and that's what you'll want.

P.S. DiskTop has the added benefit of being available all the time under
SingleFinder.