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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
Message-ID: <14925@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 21 Jan 91 22:24:23 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.113613.14192@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <14910@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Jan20.123020.26408@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1991Jan20.123020.26408@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>In article <14910@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>In article <1991Jan19.113613.14192@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>>>   Can anybody provide me with the name of an FTPable program which can
>>>reorder GS/OS directories?
>>The simplest way to do this is to move everything out of the directory,
>>then move them back in in the order that you want.
>... So, move everything out of the root directory
>of my 45MB drive (70% full) and copy them back, one by one?

No, in fact the recommended procedure is so simple that I wonder why
you don't see how to do it.  Make a NEW subdirectory, move everything
in one fell swoop to that (trivial using the Finder), open the
subdirectory folder, move everything that you are particularly
concerned about back to the root in the desired order, then move the
rest all at once.  If it takes you more than one minute you're doing
something horribly wrong.