At 15:39 20/07/2014 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 07/20/2014 02:34 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
Th[e]n you have been conned!
No, I haven't.
My comment was based only on what you *wrote*, of course, which was
"The sort of thing you [sc. Mr Lambert] complain of is the reason
many of us have turned to Linux". What was complained of by Mr
Lambert was that Windows somehow saved files randomly instead of in
predictable and controlled destination folders. It is simply untrue
that any operating system does this, of course. If your reason for
changing was indeed this untrue statement - as you told us - then you
were surely conned.
I used Windows from almost the first days of Windows 3.0. It was
quite usable, ...
I wasn't arguing for or against any operating system, of course -
just suggesting that any decision should be made on the facts, not
hilarious fiction. You have a large readership on a list such as
this, and it's inappropriate that Mr Lambert's belief that OpenOffice
behaves irrationally should be seen as true, let alone blamed
irrelevantly on his operating system.
Then why is the OP having such a problem finding them [his saved documents]?
Probably because he takes insufficient care when saving them -
imagining that somehow OpenOffice (or any other application) will
guess where he wants them to be. My guess - and it is just that - is
that he opens files from other sources (e-mail, shared drives, cloud
drives, removable drives), modifies them, and then saves the
resulting new documents without perhaps taking any care over where
they are. His new document files will end up distributed all over his system.
Like in unzipping files? When you unzip a package, rather than one
file, you never know where the rest of them went!
I know where they went. Other people know. If you didn't, the problem
wasn't with your operating system.
(If you wanted to save a music file to a Documents directory, you could.)
Er, in any operating system.
I doubt it.
I'm glad you said that, since readers will be able to estimate your
fluency with any operating system.
So then when you go to that clear space in the start system and
enter a filename to find, how come it opens the file?
It doesn't. It lists the matching files on the Start menu - the panel
above the box. You can open any of them if you wish.
Not only that, it opens the file in what IT thinks you should be
working on it with!
Most people find associations helpful. If they didn't exist, you'd
have to do two things to open any document: select (remember) and
start the application as well as open the document. Again, that is a
feature of all operating systems (applicable when you are choosing to
open the document, as your declared technique implies).
I won't swear that it doesn't accept wildcards, but I don't think it does.
Dare I say you've been conned again? It will accept partial names,
which is much the same. In any case, the proper way to find files and
folders is via Windows' file manager (Windows Explorer or
"Computer"); this accepts partial names, wildcards, what have you.
I am not one of those fanatics who have removed Windows from their computers.
Good - and I didn't suggest you were. I merely asked that you should
not attempt to aggrandise your preferred system by misrepresenting another.
Brian Barker
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