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In article <hotelca-2008950249090001@192.0.2.1>,
 hotelca@cris.com (Hotel California) writes:
> In article <4128nd$rsp@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, dpg1001@cam.ac.uk (Duncan
> Grisby) wrote:
> 
> > Why should I have to look in the _File_ menu to perform
> > an operation on a disk?
> 
> Uhh, because disks are those things that store files and there isn't a
> Disk menu.

On the other hand, if I'm not sure where to look, I'll
search through the menus. Now, since the mouse is on the
right hand side of the screen (I'm playing with disk icons),
I'll start with the furthest-right menu, "Special", which
contains an "Eject" command...

> > Given a novice user trying to eject a disk, which option
> > are they most likely to choose, the one named "Eject" or
> > the one named "Put Away"?
> 
> Obviously, to eject a disk you would use "Eject Disk" and your disk would
> be ejected.  To put a disk away it first needs to be unmounted.  To put
> the disk away you choose Put Away and it unmounts the disk for you.  (What
> is also needs to do is to remove the disk from the drive and put it in my
> floppy case.)

But, the point is, a novice user won't realise that they
need to select "Put Away", and will get confused when the
Mac wants the disk back.

The Mac's use of the word "Eject" is specific to the Mac,
and different to the general usage of the word -- to
retrieve a CD from a CD player, the normal method is to
press the "Eject" button, not the "Put away" button, for
example.


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