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From: guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Andreas J. Guelzow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Renaming Files in System 7
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.162253.15725@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 25 Jun 91 16:22:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.144106.5116@Think.COM>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <1991Jun25.144106.5116@Think.COM> ejb@think (Erik Bailey) writes:
>
>Hi.  System 7 has made the task of renaming files inordinately difficult.
>Last night I went though about 30 files I had downloaded, changing their
>names from all lower case to a much nicer mixed case.  It was NOT fun.
>
>While I do not recall the exact series of steps involved, it was a major
>ordeal.  I *really* liked the nice, quick way that 6.0.7 did it.  I find
>that all too often under System 7 I just click on the icon and start typing
>-- suddenly an entirely new icon is highlighted!!!
>
>Now the procedure is (something like): highlight the icon, WAIT for it to
>turn from black to the highlight color (yellow in my case), click where I
>want the insertion point, [*], wait some more, and type.
>
>[*] last night I noticed a very annoying (repeatable) occurrence -- the
>icon name, after being yellow, would REVERT TO BLACK, forcing yet another
>click to turn it yellow again!  This is *three* clicks just to rename a
>file!!!  And mind you, I have to make sure to space these clicks properly,
>otherwise I might launch the file!
>
>There has got to be a better way of doing this.  I'd really rather not use
>a Finder replacement, DA, or whatever.  I'd just like a nice, simple way to
>change icon names on the desktop without pulling my hair out.

Well, on my black and white Macintosh Plus screen, changing the file
names is still only one click away (running system 7): Click once on
the file name, take a deep breath (for about a half a second) and type
the new name.

-- 
Andreas J. Guelzow                       <guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Department of Mathematics & Astronomy        University of Manitoba