Comments by user "divinenephron"
Registered since: August 30, 2008
Show deleted files greyed out in the Finder which are still available in the Trash Bin
I put someting in the trash because I don't want to see it, having it greyed out would annoy me and make me delete it forever, defeating the point of having the trash can to begin with.
Another suggestion of making the trash can remember the deleted item's original location is a much better idea if you want to make it easier to recover files
Shouldn't have to EJECT a thumb drive
You have to "eject" any drive before physically removing it in any operating system.
The operating system has to unmount the filesystem first. The filesystem is the way that the files are stored on the drive. Unmounting involves doing many things such as making sure that there is nothing more to be written to the drive, making sure the list of where the data is is complete.
If you just remove it there is a chance that data that has not been written yet will be lost, you damage the list of where the files are (also called "corrupting the filesystem") and lose all of the data on the drive, or you could cause your computer to crash when it thinks "bugger where did that disk go."
The last two won't happen most of the time because most filesystems and operating systems are written to stop them, but unless you know how to get an OS to read our mind, there is no way to remove the necessity of telling the OS when we want to remove a drive.
Moving files in Finder displays a Copy dialog
Wrote on August 30, 2008, 12:55pm
I didn't even know that there was a move dialogue, surely moving an infinitely large file from one location to another on the same disk just involves telling the filesystem to pretend it is in a different place.
But apparently there is a dialogue and it should be fixed....