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From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Subject: Re: Finder 7.0 overwrite warnings (and a different Trash complaint)
In-Reply-To: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu's message of 8 Jun 91 17: 54:14 GMT
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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1991 03:33:17 GMT

In article <4082@ux.acs.umn.edu> oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) writes:

>And, hey, while I'm complaining, why is it that, when I'm trying to copy
>files onto a floppy and there isn't enough room without emptying the trash,
>the files in the HD's trash get deleted too?  This is very unintuitive, since

I suppose Apple decided, for the benefit of ultra-novices, that trash
should be trash--if you empty it, it all goes, no matter where it came
from.  After all, you can't see the difference if you open it up,
right?



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