Well Marta,
That is because of how kids are, after cartoons are over in the
morning, they go outside and soon are roaming the neighborhood and need
to be gathered up at launch time.
It is some of the terminology that has been in the computer world.
There are Parent folders, processes that do lots of spawning, all sorts
of things like that.
Jerry
On Aug 23, 2004, at 12:21 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
> When I turn on my mail window in the morning, it always tells me
> "gathering children from disk for local accounts" . Why don't they
> gather mail, why children? Who had that bright idea? It must have been
> someone at Apple? Anybody to shed light on this strange expression?
> Marta
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I will use it or not, but I will come up with one.
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