Re: Leopard copies Windows

"Daniel Johnson" <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
13i2ei8feg7fh2e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 10/25/07 5:52 PM:

"Snit" <CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"ed" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
1193350875.614006.99310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 10/25/07 3:21 PM:
yup, but windows can also backup to other drives.

Sure: but not in the Previous Versions feature. For another drive you
have
to go to another program and another interface.

One thing to consider is that where Apple puts Time Machine into
various apps, Microsoft puts *explorer* into varous apps. They embed
the shell into things.

What Photo Gallery gives you is the actual property window for
your file. The "Previous Versions" list, also, isn't showing you just
a list of previous versious. It's an explorer panel.

Sometimes Windows is almost like an Escher drawing.

That means that inside of Photo Gallery, you can see previous versions.
You can put it into "extra large icons" mode for big previews. You can
drag to restore to a different folder so you don't have to overwrite the
current version. Double click to open the file in the default application.
Right-click for other stuff. It's all there.

You can set the blasted thing as a desktop background right there.

You cannot, thankfully, get previous versions on a previous version.
The tab won't be there the second time. Just as well.

Sounds like they are making it a bit convoluted... but not sure how much
confusion that would lead to in the real world.

What is, therefore, the more surprising is that backups also appear
here. You cannot do much with them- no preview is possible-
but they are listed, and yon restore a file from backup here.

It's a really, really slick feature. Even without the intergalactic
metaphor.

The star field is not as impressive to me as is the "lifestream" view

[snip]
oh, and doing a check, it turns out that on *windows*, when looking at
a previous version of a folder, you can open it like a regular
explorer window, and just drag stuff out.

With backups or previous versions?

The "open history as a folder" only works for previous
versions, and backups of folders do not appear in the
previous versions page. You see them only for files, I find.

And when you do see them, the only thing you can do (here_
is restore in place: no preview, no drag & drop, no nothing.

This part is not quite so slick.

Thanks.

In the background Time Machine is using, from what I have heard, a standard
file system with the exception of hard links... and this allows it to be
easily browsed and have items be dragged out of it.


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