Sheila Mooney wrote:
I have been using Chandler daily for a while now. I seem to end up
deleting events quite regularly, particularly because I have created
them on the wrong calendar. I drag the event to a different calendar
and go back and delete the incorrect one. I always use the Delete key
for this which actually removes all instances of this event and puts
them in the Trash. Perhaps, I am just used to iTunes but I wish the
Delete key simply removed the event from the current collection since
this is what I intended on doing.
This is something that I occasionally run in with Ecco, which is an old
PIM using a similar concept of a repository of items that can belong to
multiple collections, so I thought I'd bring up issues this feature
could introduce.
Ecco has two different "delete" actions: remove an item from the current
collection (DEL) and delete the item completely (Ctrl-D), so its Delete
key works similarly to what Sheila proposes that Chandler do. But this
means that you can have orphan items: items that don't belong to any
collections and are therefore never shown in views other than when they
match an explicit search on their text. Orphans are kind of annoying and
take up space in the repository, so somebody wrote a command-line tool
to check the repository for orphans. It is not an ideal solution, so
maybe a better option for Chandler would be to put up an alert that the
item is about to become an orphan, with options to "Move to Trash" and
"Cancel".
Davor
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