Re: Moving From ProTools to Linux? Good or bad?

On 2009-01-03, Geoff <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How about going thru a folder of documents or zips or pdfs or
whatever and deleting the ones you no longer want. Hold down CTRL
and click each one you don't want, and don't click the ones you do.
Then <DEL>. geoff

Sure, I've done that, but how would that be faster in a CLI? I was
talking about the situation that the poster was talking about.

It wouldn't. That's what I was demonstrating, I thought..

*You* can't do it fast that way. But you apparently don't
believe other people can.

It doesn't matter the interface -- you still have to figure out what
files to delete. You either have to look and click or look and type. If
you can type well enough, and know how to look while typing, you can
select files very fast.

But that isn't the point anyway. If you are smart, you don't put lots of
unrelated files in the same folder anyway. You name or organize them
(during or after the operation) so there is commonality and organization
in the first place.

If you aren't smart, or don't have the tools to allow you to do it
differently, you will put lots of unrelated files in the same place.
That makes it difficult to organize well -- you will miss many files
no matter what tools you have. You still have to recognize the file,
and recognition is imperfect.

--
Mickey
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of
car payments. -- Earl Wilson
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