Re: Copying file vs. deleting file on Mac notebook

[buggie@auriga.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

Buggie here, again.  If anyone has the capability of copying the file to
another group, culd you bounce my article over to a Macintosh discussion
group so that those readers could comment also?   Thanks.   Steve Buggie

I really believe that the finder's file-copy feature works in the same way
on the IIgs as on the Macs, with its thermometer visual indicator.  Steve
Buggie			buggie@unm.edu




stephen e buggie (buggie@auriga.unm.edu) wrote:

:        COPYING A FILE VS. DELETING A FILE ON A MAC NOTEBOOK COMPUTER
:        =============================================================

: 	The headline is about Mac, but I feel that many A2 loyalists can
: comment on this problem I face.

: 	Today is the first day of the fall semester orientation.  A
: colleague, whom I have not seen since last May, came storming up to me.
: He accused me of deleting a huge file from his Macintosh notebook
: computer.  The file was of a book he is writing, for which he has no
: backup!

: 	I recall the episode from last May.  He has a Macintosh notebook
: computer.  He's been writing this book for months, entirely on the hard
: disk with no backups.  He'd been hearing from others that he should keep a
: backup copy on disk, so he asked me.  The disk was inserted, formatted in
: HFS, then the file icon was dragged from the hard disk folder to the 3.5"
: HD disk icon.  I vaguely remember the "thermometer" filling as the copy
: was made.  I also vaguely remember clicking the 3.5 disk icon to see the
: file icon appear.

: 	The colleague now accuses me of _deleting_ his valuable file and
: destroying his work, for which no backup exists.  I told him that my IIgs,
: as well as my Macs (Plus, SE. SE/30) all work the same way, in which the
: thermometer shows the copying of dragged files, and that this thermometer
: does not appear with deletion.   Is this correct?   In his rage, he
: suggested that if I am unfamiliar with the Mac notebooks, I should not
: have given him help.

: 	Do the Mac notebooks work differently than the compact Mac
: desktops for copying files?

: 	In retrospect, I feel I should have kept a copy of his disk
: myself.  _My hunch_ is that he deleted the file himself, later. He is not
: very skilled with his computer if he needed help just to backup a file.

: 	What should I do or say????

: 	Steve Buggie			buggie@unm.edu