On 17 Aug 2005 at 20:54, Richard Yates wrote: > > And I'm criticizing the hierarchical view that is in the folder pane > > because it groups at the same level in the hierarchy things that are > > not by any stretch of the imagination the same things (except > > insofar as Windows Explorer's presentation forces you to treat them > > as though they belong at the same level of the hierarchy). > > Do you mean things like My Documents at the same level as My Computer > even though the documents are all in the computer. I always thought > that was counterintuitive.
That's precisely the problem, but only one of many examples. > While I am writing about Explorer, the two-pane, click to open a > folder in the other pane, click that folder, etc to be quite tedious, > especially when using an application to open files in one folder and > then save them in another where the source and destination folders are > several layers deep. There must be a better way, maybe something that > functions more like the Start-programs where the submenus fly out with > mouse rollover. It would be much faster to navigate up and down. Or > even an Explorer view that shows the whole tree - or as many expanded > levels as possible - all at once. You could just go where you wanted > without all of that clicking up and down a tree. Well, were you aware that you can use COPY/CUT/PASTE to copy and move files? Highlight a file, hit Ctrl-X (cor Cut), move to the destination, and then hit Ctrl-V (for Paste), and the file is moved, just like it would be with text. I hardly ever drag and drop in Explorer, except between subfolders below the starting level of the hierarchy (i.e., if I'm viewing the Finale folder, I'd drag and drop into the Libraries folder, since it's beneath the starting level; anything that is outside the Finale folder, I'd use the keyboard shortcuts for Copy/Cut/Paste). I also find that when walking clients through file management tasks on the phone that the keyboard shortcuts (or right clicking) are much more successful than dragging and dropping, mostly because it's tricky to get the destination. Of course, the other alternative is to open two instances of Windows Explorer, and set one to your source and the other to your destination and then work that way. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
