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From: pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: finder irritations
Summary: Move a window or clean your desk
Keywords: Finder, Windows, Desktop
Message-ID: <1632@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 89 15:10:15 GMT
Expires: 23 Oct 89 04:00:00 GMT
References: <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1166@key.COM>
Reply-To: pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac
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Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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In article <1166@key.COM> jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston) writes:
>In article <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>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.
>Yes!  YES!  YES!  I am a relatively new (< 6 mos.) Mac user and this is,
>without a doubt, my number one complaint in the "sounds small, but is
>amazingly irritating" category.  (I've wanted to post this complaint myself,
>but was afraid of being laughed at by the old timers. :-)
>[remainder deleted]

While I cannot say that this has NEVER happened to me, I certainly immediately
recognized that I could accomplish by goal by doing one of a number of things:
  1) Move the "from" window so it doesn't cover up the "to" window
  2) "Growbox" the "to" window so it shows around the "from" window
  3) Close the "to" window so it's just a folder, then move the files

Now, from experience, I have arranged my desktop so the likelihood of this
occurring is minimized -- yet I still have things arranged so that they are
convenient to get to and work with.

I think it's a heck of a lot easier (even with the gripes mentioned) to 
copy files from one folder to another on a Mac than from one directory
to another on U**x or DOS.

So....don't make something more complex than it has to be....keep the Finder
(and it's "rules") simple. 

M. A. Pasek          Switching Software Development         NCR Comten, Inc.
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