Re: Changing the name of a file in the temporary items folder
Re: Changing the name of a file in the temporary items folder
- Subject: Re: Changing the name of a file in the temporary items folder
- From: Clint Hoxie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:42:37 -0700
I actually use the trash to hold things before I actually throw them
out...just like my trash can in the house. If a file is likely no
longer useful, or if I think it might be interfering with an app, I
put it in the trash. Then I go about my business, or run the app. If I
was wrong about the file, I put it back where I got it. Periodically,
I empty the trash.
I would not like anyone else emptying my trash.
Clint
PS - Intent isn't defined by powering on a machine. Your opinion of
what "should" be the purpose of the trash can is just an opinion.
Although I know most of you are never wrong, the trash bins on both
OSX and WinWhatever are made "reversable" because most people make
mistakes about throwing out files, at some point. However, if there is
someone here who has never, ever, ever, recovered a file from the
trash...let me know. I'll try to say something pithy, like, "Wow."
On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Paul Scott wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Skeeve wrote:
It isn't?
It isn't. Of course you can move it to the trash. But then it's
not deleted it's just in the trash.
So? They didn't create it; they didn't even know it existed, so
what is the problem?
Don't you think that some users will be annoied if something lands
in their trash.
No, I do not think so.
Well, *I* would be annoyed! And I'm in the "some users" class. I'm
certain others would be, too.
Even worse: Some users might have moved some things to trash and
by the time they noticed, your code already emptied the trash.
What is bad about that? The purpose of the trash is to be emptied.
Well, since you ask. Many times I put things in the trash, knowing
two things as I do so: 1) I really don't want it anymore 2) I'm
going to do something that will make me sorry I trashed it. Now, you
might argue, justifiably, that there are other options. But knowing
that the trash has a consistent behavior, i.e. it won't get emptied
unless *I* empty it, doesn't require that I look for other options.
As such, I'd be royally pissed if some application emptied the trash
with or without my permission. No application should *ever* attempt
to do that.
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