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Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
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Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?


  • Subject: Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
  • From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:08:46 -0500

Actually, the option to format a CD-RW *is* separated from formatting the hard disks - if you look at the Disk Copy app, you will find that it has the ability to format a CD-RW.

The reason that the option is also in the Disk Utility is for consistency, to avoid questions like this: "So if I can format all these disks here, why can't I format that one here also?"

Charles

On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:

On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 11:14 , Ondra Cada wrote:

...a rational desire to be safe...

And another apropos of that. I am pretty sure bitching about whether Format alert should have this or that default button does not decrease the probability of formatting something you did not want the slightest bit.

On the other hand, presume the "format CD-RW" would be separated from formatting all those harddiscs! Well, *that* would decrease the probability indeed: I can't say about your workflow, but I initialize a CDRW pretty often, whilst I format a HD about once every five years. Which,
I guess, hints something about the appropriate UI -- something Apple, in my opinion, did not quite get.
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