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From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: I just thrashed my Hard Disk!
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Date: 15 Jun 88 20:35:28 GMT
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In article <5676@coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:

>Well, Apple has done something entirely praiseworthy in the System 6.0
>release.  If the disk-initialization package tells you that a disk is
>unreadable, and you click one of the buttons that will initialize the
>disk, a warning box pops up and informs you quite clearly that "This
>process will erase all information on this disk!"  You must click the
>"Erase" button to permit the initialization to continue.
>
>So, if you didn't realize that "initialize" means "erase the world!",
>System 6.0 gives you a chance to cancel the operation.  Good move,
>Apple!

Hear hear!!!  It is about time!  That was always, to me, the biggest
violation of the Interface Guidelines that Apple ever made.  In fact,
it is one of the only violations that they have made of their own guidelines
that I can think of.  But, anyway, thank god!  I have worked as a Mac
Consultant (loosely speaking) helping people learn the Mac, getting them to
realise that Initialize = erasure was a chore... most don't really
understand until they have lost some rather important data.  Thank God it
has been fixed... now, maybe, fewer master thesis (theses?  thesi?) will be
destroyed accidently.

Good going Apple!

-ajw


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