Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lanl!cmcl2!esquire!sbb From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!! (This reply 100 lines) Keywords: What a stupid idea! Message-ID: <443@esquire.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 88 19:46:53 GMT References: <46100167@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1437@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <5282@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <2044@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Distribution: na Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 33 In article <2044@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) writes: >I certainly hope that Apple has the good sense to ignore all this nonsense >about reincarnating "virtual folders" or creating "clipped together" >documents and that they will instead enhance the "poor man's search path." > >> (Surely a computer interface for the rest of us should preserve the >> paradigms whereby we create and manipulate messes.) > >This is exactly what computer interfaces should avoid. "Clipped together" >documents are a pretty dumb idea. If there were a good search path >mechanism built into the file system, then the real folders we already have >would do everything that "clipped together" documents would do, but in a >visibly organized way. >-- >uucp: ...!seismo!cmucspt!me.ri.cmu.edu!dtw >arpa: dtw@cs.cmu.edu 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 agree it makes things hard to organize, but what exactly are you organizing, anyway? I mean, there are no runnable programs in the System Folder, and really there are no double-clickable documents either. I only rarely ever look in there -- mostly it just stays closed and buried off in the corner. The only time I ever mess with it is to add new INITs, and this doesn't happen very often, so it's not a big problem to find them (especially if you use DiskTop to find all files of type INIT or cdev). A