Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!pasteur!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hp-sde!hpcea!twakeman From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!! Message-ID: <430031@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> Date: 21 Jun 88 21:29:06 GMT References: <8806161351.AA09732@decwrl.dec.com> Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA Lines: 21 Sometimes, there are just too many items in a directory (HSF folder) for easy identification. The user needs to scroll through a large window and scan a lot of items. I for one do this too often and find it time consuming. Having an additional sub-file of the MSF type would allow me to reduce visual clutter and allow me to keep items within a directory in such a way that I can find them quickly. It isn't always desirable to make all groups separate hirechical levels. I think this is a dandy idea. However, I also agree that a HSF style container and a MSF style container should look different and have different names to minimize confusion. Looking around my office for a desk top simile, all I could find was a file drawer (for HSF) and a folder (would revert back to its old MSF status). Hmmm..... Appologies, the file drawer icon is already used in the New Wave user interface. Anyway, having both real and virtual folders is an exellent idea and I'm sure the highly imaginative people at Apple could come up with a way to conseptualize it to minimize confusion. My I expect to see this nifty idea implemented in system 7? TeriAnn