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From: bruceh@mntgfx.mentor.com (Bruce Holm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DiskFit VS Redux: My DEFINITE conclusion
Summary: clarification
Keywords: diskfit redux backup
Message-ID: <1988Oct21.104714.227@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 21 Oct 88 17:47:09 GMT
References: <130@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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In article <130@bridge2.3Com.Com>, ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger) writes:
>
> Bruce, it sounds like you are creating your own pain...50+ folders on the
> Root? You have to be kidding.. Returns to the Finder must be the excuse you
> use to get a cup of coffee or something, either that you avoid the Finder
> like a plague...with that many folders on the desktop, it sure slows things
> down. 
> 
> As far as trying to bracket some of the folders you don't want to have Diskfit
> backup, there is a simple workaround if you really want to simplify things
> instead of making all those checks in Redux is create a folder with brackets
> around it, and marquee to select groups of Folders and move them into the
> brackets and backup with Exclude Folder selected. When done, replace the
> folders back with perhaps the putaway command....easy..perhaps faster
> than the speeding checkbox...

No, it's not a pain.  I use the Finder all the time.  Returns to the Finder only 
takes ~5-10 seconds, depending on when you start counting.  How else do you manage 
30+ Meg of s/w?  I can't see burying files down into so many levels of folders 
that you can't find them without using a "Find File" type DA.

I am not trying to say which way is better...obviously, everyone has their own
disk management syles and preferences.  But the way I happen to arrange the folders
on my h/d does not "create my own pain".  It works for me.  What works for you
is what counts.

I just don't like the idea of moving folders around or renaming them all, just 
to protect them from backups...and then what if you don't remember what was in 
some of the folders?  Especially if they got 5-10 levels of folders inside?  
Sure, you can open them, but think of all the windows that will clutter your 
screen.  I know I don't have one of those BIG screen monitors.  
But if it works for you, great!  Do it!

--Bruce


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