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Cindy Hamilton[_2_] Cindy Hamilton[_2_] is offline
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On Sep 28, 6:44*pm, "J. Clarke" > wrote:
> In article <ad0a8209-f89c-443c-aea5-7866bbf85640
> @w4g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>, says...
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> > On Sep 28, 3:30*pm, jack > wrote:

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> > > Apparently you have. Once upon a time disks were organized in
> > > directories. That was before M$ decided that 'directory' was too
> > > difficult a concept for their poor users, and changed it into 'folder'.

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> > > Maybe it was a good thing though; anybody who starts talking about
> > > 'folders' gets automatically classified as a 'Default User, no clue about
> > > computers'.

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> > I don't give a crap whether they're called directories or folders. *I
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> > care passionately that they assume that you want to organize yourself
> > into "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My Music", etc., like some sort
> > of child. *"My Toys". *"My Room".

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> So what default nomenclature would you have used?


None. Let each user figure out for him/herself how they prefer to
organize things. Make it easier to configure applications to follow
that organization.

Cindy Hamilton