>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:14:07 -0400 >From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Oh so *that's* what this is about! Simple (in fact, I've been doing this >all along w.o thinking): Just put both the app. and its docs in a folder >that has a slightly different title than the app. itself. My Finale folder, >e.g., is called simply "Finale," not "Finale 2002a."
How effective this trick is depends upon the app. But if it works for you and Finale, fine. Just, if you've got 4,398 Finale documents, you will probably want to organize some subfolder hierarchy to avoid total chaos anyway. I'm a little suprised that all you've got are Finale docs. What do you use for Kallisti covers? Prefaces/postfaces/author's notes/title pages? I know some people do use Finale as an ersatz for everything from PageMaker and Illustrator to Excel, but I would (perhaps naively) have thought that with something as extensive as the Kallisti catalogue doing _everything_ with Finale would have long since proved overly tedious. I would also have assumed that having (say) the title page for "Nightmare Music" in Word folder, the cover in the PageMaker folder, and the score in the Finale folder... no, no, I really have a hard time imagining organizing things that way. But that may just be my lack of imagination. There are just lots and lots of situations where a project-oriented file organization just won't fit in with an application-oriented organization. Which is why I was astonished at your astonishment about something other than an application-oriented file organization. But, I'm not tellin' yeh howda org'nize yer disk. Ah'm jes' tryin' to say thar's some spittin'-good reasons tuhdo elsewise. Anyway: the documents/applications folders were never in any way _enforced_ w/OS 8/9. They were just a pre-configuration. Presumably there to discourage naive users from starting life by littering the Desktop with hundreds of documents. Having taught naive users and done tech support, I can assure you that document-strewn desktops is a reality (I'm talking >100 documents orders of magnitude, here). And one that has the unfortunate side effect of slowing down the startup process when it gets to that stage. It is true that hundreds and hundreds of documents at the top level of a documents folder will slow things down when the folder is opened. But, it is a lot easier to diagnose "why does my documents folder take so long to open?" (Tech support's first question: how many documents in the folder?) than "why does my machine take so long to start up?" (Tech support: ummm... SCSI chain? hard disk? system extensions? trying to mount a non-existant server?...). In fact, the first situation is so much easier to diagnose that many users will work it out for themselves before even calling tech support. And the whole point of the Mac was supposed to be that folks would work out how the machine works without needing advice from specialists (never mind any discrepancies between theory and practice). >From experience to date with OS X (fairly minimal), even there you aren't _forced_ to follow an applications/documents dichotomy. Leastaways, not w/a single user machine. In a multi-user environment, sysadmin/root will probably put a stop to people littering any applications folders with documents. In a lab-style environment, allowing such is just begging chaos and catastrophe to come. Cheers, Peter --------------- <http://www.bek.no/~pcastine/Litter/> --------------- Peter Castine | From the Litter Power Thesaurus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Normal distribution: lp.norm [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
