Re: Word experts to the bridge, please

Marc Wilson <agent-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In uk.rec.sheds, (Dave Larrington) wrote in

That would be why Apple have been calling them "folders" since 1984, then?

FWIW, I don't think that "folders" are a problem. It's a metaphor that
people can understand. If you're being pedantic about it, why is the
screen area called a "desktop"? It's just as artificial- and if your
desktop were vertical, all the "folders" would slide off it.

I wish they'd taken the metaphor a level further, to be honest. You could
have folders inside filing cabinets. I suppose you could do that yourself,
with appropriate icon changes....

Provided you only had folders inside the cabinets, and not individual
files. I have seen systems which worked like that, but only as a
database arrangement, never as a real file system.

The real problem is that metaphors are never exact, and people shouldn't
expect them to be.

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