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From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber)
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Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
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Date: 2 Feb 91 18:41:18 GMT
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A lot of people have debated the pros and cons of the Mac vs. Amiga
trashcans. It's seems that is confusion about what does what. Here are
a few of my observations, although I am certainly not a Mac expert.

(1) Each Amiga disk can have a trashcan. Dragging something to the
trashcan simply moves that file to the trashcan directory. There is sits
until you click on the trash icon and choose "Empty Trash" 
from a workbench menu, at which point
it is deleted from disk. Nice, clean, simple to understand.

(2) The Mac trashcan sits on the desktop. From my observations, what
must happen is something like this:
When you drag a file to the Mac trashcan, the operating system somehow
marks this file as having been put in the trash. It stays in that state
until you chose "Empty Trash" from the desktop menu. But it's not quite
that simple. Do you even notice how the trash gets emptied without your
telling it to do so? Anytime there is disk activity on that disk, the
trash gets emptied. Eject the disk. The trash is emptied. Write to the
disk. The trash gets emptied. Bottom line: Put something in the Mac
trashcan, you'll likely never get it back.

Personally, I prefer the Amiga method. If I put it in the trashcan, I can
get it out if I later change my mind. If I want to get rid of it for sure
in the first place, I'll just choose discard from the workbench menu.

Just my $.02 worth,
Regard,
Richard
gerber@rigel.astro.uiuc.edu
.