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From: hogan@rosevax.UUCP (Andy Hogan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Possible bug in MacWrite 4.5
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Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 09:52:26 EST
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 Stephen Perelgut, in a query I can't respond to, notes:
> 
> When I make a deletion, I get the message
> 	This disk is almost full! Is it OK if this operation can't be
> 	Undone, and the file is automatically Saved afterwards?
> 		GO AHEAD		Cancel
> (Why is it looking at the internal drive when I opened the MacWrite file
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> by double-clicking the icon image on the external diskette?)

This is probably my biggest and most consistant complaint with Mac 
software, *especially* software from Apple!  Applications which use disk
space for private files generally DO NOT EVEN ATTEMPT to use available
space on the external drive.  This makes it very inconvenient to use
a system disk with a lot of fonts, DAs, or multiple applications.  
Giving up a few K on a data disk is a small concession compared to 
quitting an application, cleaning up the system disk (or restarting
with another one) and starting over.

To all Mac-programmers, especially Apple (listening, Larry?):  Please
check ALL available drives for space if you use files within your
program.  Even the nice "this disk is full" box gets VERY irritating
when you know there is a couple hundred Kbytes on another disk that
is in the machine!  Even if everyone could afford a mega-mac and put a
large system in a 750K RAM disk,  there may be times when that system
disk if full but there is plenty of other disk space available!

-- 
Andy Hogan   Rosemount, Inc.   Mpls MN
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