"Familiarity breeds contempt, right? So it stands to reason that anyone who uses a product extensively can find fault with it. I'm no exception - my work requires me to use Mac OS X every day, all day long, and although I am generally thrilled with its capabilities and reliability, some things about it really drive me up the wall."
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Member since:2005-11-10
I din't lose it, I nearly did. After a machine died I was utilizing my backup and trying to merge other data sources into the backup drive before copying over what I needed to the local disk. Granted to say I paused to deal with another small copy somewhere else and discovered the dodgy Replace feature.
Member since:2005-07-06
Hey, people do stupid things. I was a VMS cluster manager in a prior life for the Pathworks development cluster. I was babysitting one another cluster while its system manager was away on vacation and my boss said "hey, while she is out, see if you can get some of the developer or writer's disks cleaned up"... so on a Thursday I said "Tomorrow I will be doing a purge/keep=2 on ALL DISKS! Take precautions!". Next day I did it. Some writer comes running over screaming bloody murder, we almost got into a fist fight... reason? His method of keeping all his notes, all his work, etc. was by using VMS FILE VERSIONS! Example... "wklyrpt.txt;1", "wklyrpt.txt;2", "wklyrpt.txt;3", etc. He literally did this for a year and the other system manager left file versions limit at 65000 for this guy!!
Criminy.
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2005-07-06
I sort of agree with you on the replace "feature". but I seriously doubt that you lost 15 years of work. 15 years? No backup? I find that highly unlikely.
But you are right in stating that the replace feature is somewhat dangerous. Of course: Replace means replace.. and the finder will replace your folder. Perhaps a merge option would be well placed here.