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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
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Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
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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
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