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Article #6682Re: finder irritations
From: Andy Dent, ph: 09 380 2620
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1989 07:31
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1989 07:31
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In article <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > I have two major irritations when using the finder: > > 1. You have two folders open and you want to transfer or > copy a file from one to the other. You click on the file > you want to move and then its window comes to the front > which totally obliterates your view of the destination folder. > Yuck! it would have been easier to use DOS or UNIX. > > 2. When using multifinder typically you have a lot of windows > open for whatever applications you're using. If you go to the > desktop these windows block out your view of the trashcan. It > feels pretty bad when you can't even remove files. > Which is exactly why I use DiskTop from CE Software - it has a MUCH better interface to copying and deleting files and also a logical Move - across volumes as well as between folders on the same volume!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!vaxa!a_dent From: a_dent@vaxa.uwa.oz (Andy Dent, ph: 09 380 2620) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: finder irritations Message-ID: <1186@vaxa.uwa.oz> Date: 19 Oct 89 07:31:24 GMT References: <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Western Australia Lines: 17