Re: OMFG - brain-dead UI from Apple
- From: David Sankey <D.P.C.Sankey@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:19:33 +0100
In article <spambucket-4AAA60.22464931082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Andrew Collier <spambucket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OMFG. I've just deleted some files in the process of making sure they
> were backed up.
>
> Hopefully I can go to another disc and get an earlier copy. But I can't
> believe Apple would do this:
>
> You put a blank DVD in the drive, in Tiger you get one of these new
> "burn folder" things which means that any folder you drag in becomes an
> alias.
>
> Dig down into that, and you're not looking at aliases, you're looking at
> the actual files.
Exactly the behaviour that I would have hoped for for something
operating at the filesystem level.
If it had been the other way round, that instead you made a folder of
aliases rather than an alias to a folder, then I would have been upset.
In this latter case it would mean if you later added files to one of the
original folders to be burnt that they would not be burnt (and
conversely that if you deleted files from the original, they could still
be burnt if the alias could resolve the file in the Trash).
The problem is that it is a folder, not a list of files. So a problem
with the UI if it led you to expect it to be a list of files rather than
a folder, otherwise I would say not.
Dave
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