Mac Power Book

Certainly glad I'm not the only one.

Not a bit of this deals with the functionality of the programs or files. If you want them filed a certain way, you can install them that way, or deal with them being where they are.



Otherwise, you should be spending time using the program, not wishing it was in /apps/network/a-m rather than /program files/(manufacturer name)/(program name). I access programs daily that I can find by path, but don't access by path. It doesn't take me 30 seconds to access that path, if for some reason I should want/need to do so. Better yet, I could probably run a search and find it as fast. And I do this with files all the time - sorting, folder naming. Granted, it's porn, music, video, and stolen programs/freeware, but I put it where I want it and then it's there.

yes, it does. Changing for this purpose means changing the entire architecture, I'm assuming. Completely starting over. And for what? Aesthetics? It's not bashing, because I don't believe a Windows based PC is inferior because it "can't" do this. Don't know if it'd be as simple as registry edits and shortcut target changes, or more complicated, but all of it seems like a ton more work than "not dicking with it since it doesn't matter."

shortcuts to programs/files and the files themselves are and should act differently.

 

yeah, that's always struck me as odd. you have to ask for your disk back via the os. you'd think having an eject button on the drive itself (instead of the keyboard as it is with new macs - or as well as, perhaps) would make more sense. it's not like the os can't monitor front panel buttons and do whatever it needs to do.

what always struck me as dumb ass with the pre-os x macs was that "eject my disk" was done by dragging your disk to the trash. wtf? that sounds like "erase my disk" to me.


edit: on the other hand, i like the mac's system of ejecting usb/firewire disks over window's. the mac treats them like cd/dvd drives with an "eject" function. the "safely remove hardware" thing in windows is rather clunky, i find.

 

Anyone know of a good tutorial site or product I can get the wife?

 

dunno how hard it would be. probably not that hard.

the registry is used to find apps, so if you move an app, the first thing you do is try to find that particular app in the registry. if you can't find it, then i would assume moving it won't cause problems. if you can find it, then you've found the registry entry you need to update. when the app is placed in a new folder, you simply change the registry entry to reflect the new placement.

if you moved stuff with something other than the os, then you're sol.

this system would then encourage developers to account for people moving apps from folder to folder and to keep from designing things that break when apps move. as it stands, the os warns about moving apps which re-enforces the notion that developers don't need to worry about users moving their apps.

 

well, I only know of one person who's worried about moving apps for the time being.
Also, wouldn't this just make pirating apps super easy? Move to CD, move to thousands of discs in the time it takes to copy. Not that it's hard, now that you can get .iso files and unpack them in record time, but I imagine they like not every idiot being able to do it.

 

microsoft employs some of the weakest copy protection on the planet, so i doubt piracy is their top priority.