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iMav
The Devil's Advocate
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well as far as throwing around is concerned .. all i throw around is ... os x cant cut files/folder a fact which u and every1 has accepted ...
an OS cant cut/move files/folders between drives ... and u have documented this in ur fast track to apple if im not wrong ... havnt u
well as far as throwing around is concerned .. all i throw around is ... os x cant cut files/folder a fact which u and every1 has accepted ...
an OS cant cut/move files/folders between drives ... and u have documented this in ur fast track to apple if im not wrong ... havnt u
gxsaurav
You gave been GXified
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I hope they fix such a silly stupidity
aryayush said:Glad you let 'em know, gx_saurav. I am sure Apple's engineers are scrambling to implement this now that you have pointed this out. Go get 'em, BoyGenius!
I hope they fix such a silly stupidity
goobimama
Macboy
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That reply was to iMav's post... Yours might have a valid point there...
Although, if you get around to working with OS X, you figure out how to get past these things and they don't remain annoyances any more. After all, when you click on applications, there is a small icon on th top of the finder window. You can drag that icon to the dock and its done!
That reply was to iMav's post... Yours might have a valid point there...
Although, if you get around to working with OS X, you figure out how to get past these things and they don't remain annoyances any more. After all, when you click on applications, there is a small icon on th top of the finder window. You can drag that icon to the dock and its done!
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aryayush
Aspiring Novelist
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No, it doesn't. All things that exhibit the 'poof' behaviour are always tied to a particular application. You cannot drag Safari bookmarks out of it onto something else. You cannot drag buttons out of toolbars onto something else either. Same for the status icons in the menubar. Therefore, you cannot interchange virtual aliases between the Dock and the Finder sidebar. It's called consistency. Look it up.goobimama said:
iMav
The Devil's Advocate
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arya .. the point is its an alias to a folder which is a location in finder and not a bookmark or a button ... and hence dragging it from 1 place to another 'shud' create an alias to the original location
arya .. the point is its an alias to a folder which is a location in finder and not a bookmark or a button ... and hence dragging it from 1 place to another 'shud' create an alias to the original location
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aryayush
Aspiring Novelist
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No, it shouldn't because it is not an alias. It is a virtual alias. It is not a file. It is no more than a button; it does not do anything more than performing an action, which is what a button does.
No, it shouldn't because it is not an alias. It is a virtual alias. It is not a file. It is no more than a button; it does not do anything more than performing an action, which is what a button does.
gxsaurav
You gave been GXified
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Its not consistency, it should depend after dragging where u r dropping. Some that Windows lets us, if something cannot be dropped somewhere the "uavailable" cursor is made.
aryayush said:No, it doesn't. All things that exhibit the 'poof' behaviour are always tied to a particular application. You cannot drag Safari bookmarks out of it onto something else. You cannot drag buttons out of toolbars onto something else either. Same for the status icons in the menubar. Therefore, you cannot interchange virtual aliases between the Dock and the Finder sidebar. It's called consistency. Look it up.
Its not consistency, it should depend after dragging where u r dropping. Some that Windows lets us, if something cannot be dropped somewhere the "uavailable" cursor is made.
infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
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somewhat similar kind of behaviour is exhibited in the nautilus sidebar. the shortcuts there are stored in a bookmark file and are neither hard nor soft links. hence u can't drag them out anywhere.
somewhat similar kind of behaviour is exhibited in the nautilus sidebar. the shortcuts there are stored in a bookmark file and are neither hard nor soft links. hence u can't drag them out anywhere.
praka123
left this forum longback
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^duh!do u expect anyone to know about nautilus file manager of Gnome DE of Linux to be known to apple users.
one proffessor Ph.d who is a friend of mine is using gcc and everything on ppc mac.but he says except debian he cant now use any Linux or windows.so some addiction Mac means.
^duh!do u expect anyone to know about nautilus file manager of Gnome DE of Linux to be known to apple users.
one proffessor Ph.d who is a friend of mine is using gcc and everything on ppc mac.but he says except debian he cant now use any Linux or windows.so some addiction Mac means.
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aryayush
Aspiring Novelist
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If it didn't remove the shortcut, how would you remove it! The method of removing shortcuts is dragging them out. Fat lot of good it would do if you dragged them out and it would put them back in!
It does put stuff back to its place when it is supposed to do so. For example, if you drag the shortcut of a currently running application out of the Dock, it flies back to the Dock.
... and please stop discussion on this (non) issue now. A simple little thing, which is as intuitive as it is possible for it to be and you guys have worked it up into this huge issue. Insufferable!
If it didn't remove the shortcut, how would you remove it! The method of removing shortcuts is dragging them out. Fat lot of good it would do if you dragged them out and it would put them back in!
It does put stuff back to its place when it is supposed to do so. For example, if you drag the shortcut of a currently running application out of the Dock, it flies back to the Dock.
... and please stop discussion on this (non) issue now. A simple little thing, which is as intuitive as it is possible for it to be and you guys have worked it up into this huge issue. Insufferable!
infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
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thats the biggest flaw wid ur comparison! don't compare it wid windows. every os does things in its own way. if everything was same as windows, then what originality wud mac osx haf and then who'd buy MAC????? when in rome, do as the romans do!gx_saurav said:
oye, control yaar!iMav said: