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From: 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Mic Mac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 1.4 Wishlist (practical)
Keywords: 1.4, copy
Message-ID: <1758@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 89 14:29:06 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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Here is my entry for the 1.4 wish list.  It is nothing very big and should
only require a few hundred bytes of code.  Oh wait ... this is Commodore ...
make that a few K of code :-) (please, no flames)

I have been doing a lot of file and directory copying lately.  I have been
rounding up all the stuff on my fish disks that is usefull and collecting
them onto disks.  Sometimes there are four or five directories on one Fish
disk that all should go to the same disk.  So I merely highlight them all and
drag them all to the other disk ... no problem.  Unless of course there is 
no room on the other disk, then you end up with partial directories with 
no icons, so you have to go into the CLI (which some people don't know how
to use) to get rid of the directory.

To solve this problem, Commodore could do 1 of 2 things:
(1) Make a quick check to see how much space is occupied by the directories
   you want to use.  Compare this with the amount of space left on the   
   destination drive.  If there is not enough space, tell the user and 
   abort the operation.
(2) A better way would be as follows.  After the directory is made on the 
   new disk, the first file to be copied should be the #?.info file.  Now
   the user can just drag it into the trashcan if there was not enough room
   for the thing.  Now, how, you ask, does the user know which drawer was
   the one that was being copied when the disk became full?  Very simple.
   When multiple drawers are selected to be copied, they all show their 
   alternate image (selected state).  As a drawer (or any file for that
   matter) is copied, it should automatically become unselected on the 
   Workbench.  Then if a person were copying a number of files or drawers,
   and the destination disk become full, he would know which files were 
   not copied by simply examining which icons were still in the selected
   state.  Voila ... problem solved.

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% Alan W. McKay     %                                             %
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