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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Easiest way to hang a Mac...
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.220027.7541@oswego.oswego.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 22:00:27 GMT
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In article <16073:Apr100:56:1691@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> peacock@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (kenneth peacock) writes:
>
>In response to the statements:
>>What's the easiest way to hang a Mac?  Drag the icon of a disk that has been
>>ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk!

[discussion of this problem and solution (cmd-.) deleted]

You know, since the very beginning I've felt this was a problem Apple
has failed to address.  I understand the logic of "Eject" leaving the
disk icon on the desktop for copies on single drive machines, but I
don't understand why there isn't another menu command to "Forget" the
disk.

This seems like a serious flaw in what is (generally) a very consistent
desktop metaphor.  Try explaining to a (nervous) new user that it's ok
to drag an entire disk into the trash, but not ok to drag a file or folder!
Even more fun, try to explain this to your 9-year-old-daughter ("to get
your disk back out, drag it into the trash, but NEVER drag your folder to
the trash" :-).

At work recently a new user was perusing a big box of PD software from
the user group library, copying what she wanted from each disk and then
ejecting it.  After she left I looked at the mac and almost the ENTIRE
SCREEN was filled with "dimmed" disk icons of the ejected disks!


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