Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!hub!6600pete From: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Re^3: finder irritations Message-ID: <2638@hub.UUCP> Date: 21 Oct 89 04:34:07 GMT References: Sender: news@hub.UUCP Reply-To: pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu Organization: Underground BBS: rlogin 128.111.41.100 -l bbs Lines: 40 In-reply-to: dh07+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 21 Oct 89 00:39:31 GMT OK, I cheated. I'm following-up to the wrong person, and the following line is manufactured: [ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:] (and please forgive me if that's not strictly right) >Some people told me that I simply wasn't managing my windows >correctly. That was probably me. >These people must know about something I don't know about. If the source >folder and the destination folder are both 4 or 5 levels deep you've, got >the desktop covered before you even begin the copy or move operation. So close the windows after you're through with them. If you arrange your windows so that they cascade from uper left to lower right, this is a simple task. >Again the whole operation could have been done in DOS or UNIX before >you even begin on the Mac. My purpose though is not to dump on the Mac. BUZZ! No, I'm sorry, but please accept this consolation prize: you've already bought into the Mac interface without knowing it! Do you REALLY copy things from one directory 12 levels deep to another 9 levels deep under DOS or UNIX? I NEVER do that. But I do it on the Mac every day. (Actually, I'm MOVING files, but that's not significant.) With DOS and UNIX, of course, you have the extra-special priveleges of not knowing for sure what's in a directory you're copying/moving to, and overwriting files unintentionally is just about the most fun thing I can think of. Even better, not knowing whether there's a directory corresponding to the last name on your path specification line is GREAT FUN -- the file may be copied/moved into that directory, or a new file may be created with that name! [Checking ahead of time is even better -- you get to type a 60-character pathname TWICE instead of once!] -- | GurgleKat (Pete Gontier), pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu | .UUCP reply addresses bounce; try another path. | ...if you'd gone to Dartmouth, you'd not have had to take the math.