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Copying one folder over another of the same name destroys data!
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<blockquote data-quote="KuruMonkey" data-source="post: 113171"><p>I was pretty much trying to point out that the truth of the matter lies somewhere in between your and technologists positions. Its just an unfortunate happenstance that the dialog in question happens to be worded close enough to seduce someone familiar with a similarly worded but fundamentally different dialog into thinking the two dialogs are in fact, functionally similar.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>True, it would be best if this action were undo-able. (You can undo the move of the folder, but not the deletion of the old one, which sucks, to be fair)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is actually quite tricky; if you were to return the deleted folder from the trash, it would have to REPLACE the copied folder. Which would then need to go to the trash. Deleting stuff when you retrieve stuff from the trash would also tend to make the odd user irate.</p><p></p><p>Apart from not adding an undo that actually undoes the action taken, rather than half of it, I'm not sure Apple could improve much on the situation, without mucking up other things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KuruMonkey, post: 113171"] I was pretty much trying to point out that the truth of the matter lies somewhere in between your and technologists positions. Its just an unfortunate happenstance that the dialog in question happens to be worded close enough to seduce someone familiar with a similarly worded but fundamentally different dialog into thinking the two dialogs are in fact, functionally similar. True, it would be best if this action were undo-able. (You can undo the move of the folder, but not the deletion of the old one, which sucks, to be fair) This is actually quite tricky; if you were to return the deleted folder from the trash, it would have to REPLACE the copied folder. Which would then need to go to the trash. Deleting stuff when you retrieve stuff from the trash would also tend to make the odd user irate. Apart from not adding an undo that actually undoes the action taken, rather than half of it, I'm not sure Apple could improve much on the situation, without mucking up other things. [/QUOTE]
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