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Originally Posted by tooki
Anyone who thinks a search (no matter how good) can replace a file navigator is delusional. Visualizing what is on a disk or in a folder is a c…
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Originally Posted by chabig
Funny that MacosXrumors has a story on this very topic today...
http://www.macosxrumors.com/articles...-on-spotlight/
Chris
Finder + mo…
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Originally Posted by chabig
Funny that MacosXrumors has a story on this very topic today...
http://www.macosxrumors.com/articles...-on-spotlight/
Chris
Cool, I bea…
I just hope and pray they bring back extensions that can conflict with hardware and applications and bring down my entire computer. I miss having a coffee break every hour or so.
Wow, Aperture's interface is really impressive. I really hope it is a sign of what's to come with Leopard. but Apple has seemed pretty bent on keeping the Pro apps' interfaces sepa…
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Originally Posted by tooki
Anyone who thinks a search (no matter how good) can replace a file navigator is delusional. Visualizing what is on a disk or in a folder is a c…
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Originally Posted by khufuu
Just thinking out loud here....
The only reason we have directories is to find files. I think that Spotlight could be the new paradigm (or t…
The desktop metaphor is way way way to dated. Think of all the computers you see with cluttered as hell desktops, downloading a new file or inserting a CD makes you shuffle though…
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Originally Posted by mhuie
Every person has their own method of organization. The computer can "try" to read your mind, but all it can do is *help* you find things, it's…
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Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
I wish there was a way to store often used windows but NOT in the dock. If windows on the desktop could turn into small ic…
There will always be a need for people to visually navigate to files and folders. The Finder - i.e., an app dedicated to visual and hierarchical file navigation on OS X - is never …
Perhaps I'm in the minority but 10.5 is so far off in the future, I'm not even thinking about it. being so much time between now and the release any GUI design is bound to be chan…
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Originally Posted by mhuie
Every person has their own method of organization. The computer can "try" to read your mind, but all it can do is *help* you find things, it's…
I still feel the old metaphor desktop suits the computer perfectly well. Then again, my system is organized similarly to my desktop. My hard drive is just like my filing cabinet,…
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Originally Posted by tooki
Anyone who thinks a search (no matter how good) can replace a file navigator is delusional. Visualizing what is on a disk or in a folder is a c…
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Originally Posted by SMacTech
tooki - this is so true. I have many files, with the same name, on the same disk. Spotlight is useless for me to find the ONE I want when I …
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Originally Posted by mpancha
The more I can get my computer to work just like my desk, the better for me.
Yes...there are a lot of people like you. And that's fine…
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Originally Posted by Horsepoo!!!
The tidy folks have got to realize that's it's possible to be tidy with both a metadata rich system and a static and hierarchical system …
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Originally Posted by Horsepoo!!!
No...*you're* silly for making such a claim...Spotlight isn't just a search tool.
If you do indeed have many files with the same name,…
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Originally Posted by SMacTech
Yes, as a developer, I have many backups of the same files, folder, source code, etc.
I tell them apart by their location. I use Spotlight …
Apple will have to do something radical to counter Vista. Not just another face to the windows or icons, I mean a totally different way of looking at the Finder. NOTHING about th…