A Chara Oleg,
Friday, February 25, 2000, 6:13:39 AM, you wrote:
OZ> Maybe. But I won't use it anyway, for 2 reasons: I don't like to keep
OZ> files in desktop folders, and I don't use Explorer also; I don't use
OZ> drag'n'drop if there is a way to do things without it.
So why bother using Windows? :-)
When speaking of desktop folders I was speaking generally. Although I
do keep a 'working folder' on my desktop (my own sort of temp folder for
dragging and dropping files into) I don't generally create sub
directories within the desktop directory. The Win desktop has many
limitations one of them being the number of items that can be
displayed at any one time. If you happen to go over the limit you
visually 'loose' the items until you open an Explorer window and
access the desktop from there. So extensive use of the Desktop for
managing work and files is a bad idea.
But what's wrong with drag 'n' drop exactly? First, not everyone that
uses a mouse to drag and drop is a moron! I know that you did not say
that but I get the feeling that you perhaps think it to be a bit lame?
I also use the keyboard - or my pen even - more than a mouse - being
that they are decidedly quicker in most instances, and being that I
started out when keyboard commands weren't optional but obligatory.
However, the mouse and drag and drop are still incredibly useful and
quick - and any method that will allow me to get a job done fast and
accurately is a method that I will employ regardless of whether it is
a 'cool' technique or not. I am not a fanatic in this area.
Drag and drop is very useful and if we didn't have it now we would
only want it all over again! It is wise I think to use the features of
an OS if those features can aid you in being more productive. If you
are going to tell me that you think a configurable export feature
that allowed you to simply drag and drop files from TB! to any folder
'anywhere' on any drive would not be useful, I would have to ask you
the basis of such a belief as I for one can not, for the moment
at least, see the rationality behind it!
Also you ask somewhere why anyone would want individual files? Well, I
think that that it is a really a matter of personal preference rather
than anything else. I personally don't particularly wish to do a text
based search through one large email that contains say four hundred
emails and thousands of lines of text just to retrieve something like
a password, registration number, or some other detail that I would
know where to find immediately if it was in a single indexed file
- maybe I should print it out and keep a hard copy but I'm not trying
to create a hard copy library and it isn't exactly secure.
Anyhow, I like to manage my files my way and I seem to be able to
quickly find what I am looking for by visually searching, or index
searching, file names. If email file names were the same as the 'from'
and 'subject' fields it would be rather good. Ever tried scrolling
through a text file of more than a hundred emails complete with
headers, sorry 'kludges' looking for one thing? My brain disengages
quite quickly I'm afraid as I know that such a task is totally
unnecessary and a waste of my time.
Slan,
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