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From: nathan@reed.UUCP (Nathan Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Re: A Finder Suggestion
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> To my view, all what dragging the startup disk to the trash should do is
> just eject the disk! I don't want any complex things to happen. If you
>                Frank

My interpretation of "trashing" a disk is that is it both ejects the
disk and FORGETS about it.  This is extremely useful since I can
remember times when the mac suddenly comes up with that annoying
dialog box (with no cancel) that says
	"please insert the disk: Long Gone"
or the disk that I looked at on another machine a move a folder window.

There's another suggestion.  Why not have a "not available" button on
the "please insert disk: ^0" dialog. This would actually make the
VolumeName:FileName syntax generally usable since if you tried
to write to a Volume that doesn't exist you could cancel it.  The
only problem I see is during those painful multidisk swaps that
usually only happen on a 128k machine (yes, Apple they do still
exist).  However, it seems like it would be possible to have another dialog
in memory that would have a "continue" and an "abort" button to do the
obvious thing.  This would also reduce the punishment for the simple
error of ejecting the wrong disk when your copying a large file, or
other such operations.
		-Nathan Wilson