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From: skwood@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood)
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Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
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Date: 4 Feb 91 19:03:21 GMT
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ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber) writes:

>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.

>(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.

     Obviously DELETEING a file is the WHOLE purpose of putting something
in the Trashcan.  Many people before you have also said that with the Amiga
Trashcan, you have the option of taking something out if you decide that
you want it again.  Perhaps the real solution to that problem is to never
put it in the Trashcan in the FIRST place.  If you aren't sure about
deleting something, leave it in it's original directory.
   
     Second comment: Since each Amiga disk can have a Trashcan there is
an Empty Trash menu item, why in 1.0 - 1.3 (I don't know if 2.0 has this)
versions of Workbench was there ALSO a DISCARD menu item?  As far as I could
tell, it perfoormed the exact same function MUCH faster than the Trashcan.
Was there something special about the DISCARD command that made it different
than putting something in the Trashcan and then Emptying the Trash.  It was
because of this command that I never had a Trashcan on my disks.  If I was
using CLI, I would use the delete command.  If I was using WB, just select
the items that DISCARD them.  
                                          
                                          Scott