Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!nathan From: nathan@reed.UUCP (Nathan Wilson) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Re: A Finder Suggestion Message-ID: <1792@reed.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 16:59:02 EDT Article-I.D.: reed.1792 Posted: Mon Aug 12 16:59:02 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 13:44:52 EDT References: <251@sask.UUCP> <2197@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1771@reed.UUCP> <787@mcvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 23 > 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