On 18 Aug 2005 at 7:47, Phil Daley wrote: > At 8/17/2005 11:54 PM, Richard Yates wrote: > > .>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. > . > With NUMLOCK ON, select a drive or directory in Explorer, press the > asterisk key on the numerical keypad. > > This will expand everything from there on down.
While that certainly helps, it still doesn't make it easy to navigate a long list of folders (in some cases) or make it easily to accurately drag and drop. It was a bad design, in my opinion, and the vast majority of PC users can't use it reliably, and therefore don't. There are too main reasons for this: 1. they don't understand files and folders -- there is no conceptual model in their heads for it. 2. they aren't good enough at mousing or keyboarding to be able to accurately use Explorer for managing files. There is, of course, a third reason, and that's that they just don't care -- as long as their files are where they expect them, they are happy. If they entirely accept default settings, they'll end up with gazillions of files in My Documents, but for some reason, browsing through 3,000 files doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. -- 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
