bskendig@set.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (02/21/91)
Here's the scenario: I have several dozen files in that folder over
there, and several dozen mostly-different files in this folder here.
I select all the files in this folder, and drag then to that folder:
Some items in this location have the same
names as items you're moving. Do you
want to replace them with the ones
you're moving?
[ Cancel ] [[ OK ]]
Well, no, I don't want to overwrite the ones with the same names,
because I think the copies in that folder are more recent, so I click
`Cancel'...
... and nothing happens. The dialog is dismissed.
Huh?
Wait a second here. I just said I didn't want to replace the files
with the same names! I still want to move all the _other_ files into
that folder!
So, what to do? Same thing I hated doing in System 6: drag each of
the dozens of files one-by-one from this folder to that folder, and
whenever it tells me that the file already exists and would I like to
replace it, I click `Cancel'. Sheer tedium!
So, here's a cry for help to the System Seven engineers: Can't you
change the buttons from "Cancel / OK" to "Cancel / No / Yes"? This
would be a bit more intuitive, I think, or at least equally so;
clicking "Yes" would replace the files just as "OK" used to do, but
clicking "No" would move all the other files to that folder, without
moving the duplicates from this folder.
And one more little thing, while I think of it:
Why doesn't the Dialog Manager change the cursor to the I-beam cursor
when the cursor is moved over an editable text field in a dialog box?
Just wondering...
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