>From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Finale] > > However, even OS 9 has a folder hierarchy >I consider bizarre: why would anyone want to keep a document separate from >the application that created it?
Why would anyone want to keep a document in the same folder as the application that created it? Aside from downright perversion? Sherlock counts 1125 documents with creator 'WDBN' on my machine. There are 3947 'max2's. 3564 .html's. Andrew: I would be curious to know that the count of Finale files are on your machine. I don't even keep documents on the same _partition_ that I keep applications on. (Hint: docs are on an extended HFS partition, I kept the apps partition in std. HFS... Often I have project folders that may include a Finale or Mosaic file, MIDI extracts, PDFs and Postscript. In the case of compositions, there may be accompanying text documents, Max patches, sketches, tables... all in a plethora of formats. Different creating apps, but the same project. So they're in the same folder, which makes a lot of sense. Storing documents with the creating application is madness except for the most simplistic of configurations. What happens at application update time? You want to start sorting through the chaos to find out which icons to trash and which to move? And I haven't even started on the issue of potential multi-user access or sensible backup strategies. Respectfully submitted (but reading erratically), P --------------- <http://www.bek.no/~pcastine/Litter/> --------------- Peter Castine | From the Litter Power Thesaurus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Negative Cauchy distribution: lp.coshy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
