Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!chow From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!! Keywords: folders Message-ID: <5329@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 29 Jun 88 00:32:39 GMT References: <46100167@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1437@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <5282@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <2044@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <443@esquire.UUCP> <956@aplcomm.UUCP> Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Distribution: na Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 32 In article <956@aplcomm.UUCP> gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (John R. Gersh) writes: |In article <443@esquire.UUCP| sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes: || ||This is all true, although I don't really know why everyone has problems ||with the current "solution" (i.e., just throw everything in the System ||Folder in a big jumble). ... || | |I tend to agree with this, at least as far as System Folder |organization goes. What I do (admittedly only useable on a Mac II) is |to organize the System Folder by color. System files are blue, INITs |orange, cdevs cyan, etc. This allows easy visual recognition of what's |what and permits View by Color to list things by type. This brings up something which I'm disappointed at with the Finder. Since the color menu dosen't show up unless you're in 16-color mode or better, why is there only 8 colors in the color menu? Very often I wished that I had more colors avaliable when I organize a group of files in a folder by color (e.g., green = disk utils, red = apple sys utils, etc.) At a minimum the color menu ought to support 16 colors, and the colors should be user choosable! What do other Mac II owners think? Christopher Chow /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.248.35 or 128.84.253.35) | | Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | | Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | | Phone: 1-607-272-8014 Address: 107 Catherine St, Ithaca NY 14850 | | Delphi: chow2 PAN: chow | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/