Comments on: Snow Leopard: An Even Better Leopard

By: lala

lala — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:08:54 +0000

If you get along well without it, that’s because you are not transferring large folders.

I’m trying to move (ie cut and paste) a 120GB folder. It should take 1 second to move it.

The OSX system does not permit it. It only enables in this situation a copy. That takes over one hour!

“Move”, Apple.

By: eb

eb — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:19:32 +0000

@ fishrivers: You are right : the drag and drop method (especially with touch-pad) is very dangerous. Many times it happened that I dropped the file at the wrong place (i.e. somewhere in the file tree) and was in trouble to find it again. So, the idea that cut/paste is a deviation from the single click theory that could lead to errors is not convincing. Just let people use the means to achieve their job. And if you are afraid that people have fish short term memory and forget which file they are cut/pasting, just open a window with filename in the clip-board…. So easy to make people happy…

By: fishrivers

fishrivers — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:09:34 +0000

PS – haven’t tried Snow leopard. The rant was RE Leopard.

By: fishrivers

fishrivers — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:08:40 +0000

If I hear one more person telling me to drag and drop in Finder to move I’ll puke! Seriously, try dragging an item across multiple directories and levels of folders. Maybe you want to change views as you navigate elsewhere or go do something else while your item stays in clipboard, or better yet you want to stop pause, VIEW the folder path of new location before you paste? It’s WAY too easy to accidentally drop in wrong location completely.

I’m a mac user of 15 years and a windows 7 user of 9 months. I hated xp. Now, I HATE mac. Bottom line is that the OS should allow different users to behave as they wish to. So cut paste should be a standard feature. Whether it be default or not is another debate, but give it to us. Let’s not go into the stupid single click mouse thing. I have a good friend, mac user for years, who didn’t know about contextual menus until I told him ONE MONTH AGO!

For all of mac’s good things… the dumb things are REALLY dumb.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:22:11 +0000

FWIW: Snow Leopard was 29GB leaner on my MBP

By: macsux

macsux — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:33:49 +0000

yep, finder is pathetic. any power user that has to go from the insanely easy multi tasking of windows to using this finder crap knows what were all saying about no cut and paste…the ultra gay fact that new folder is not on the right click menu and then it places the new folder at the root instead of where you just told it to(to buddy whos been using his mac since way back to jack..go eff yerself cause you dont know didley about speed and efficiency), the dock is shite…it takes so many more clicks and steps to acheive the same task that on a windows machine is so easy…..i use both mac and pc and half the time i have to unpack archives for mac on my pc cause mac is just so gay…if you click an icon in the dock to open the window why not be able to click it again to re-close it…why get carple tunnel just because the idiots at apple are so ego based and dont even use their own equipment…i mean a one button mouse??? wtf, how elegant..not..apple you fools will keep digging yer own grave with that stupid elegance mentality…thank god i can use firefox and not have to suffer with that safari bs…..so frustrating

By: mirrerthelma@comcast.net

mirrerthelma@comcast.net — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:35:59 +0000

I wish I had known that snow leopard upgrade would cost only $29. I paid much more several months ago when I got my snow leopard upgrade.

By: eb

eb — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:23:50 +0000

As a user of a dozen of OS, I find absolutely ridiculous the absence of cut/paste files! When you pay $2000 a modern computer such a basic function should be present. People who don’t want to use it for religion reasons can follow other methods!

By: Yunus

Yunus — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:50:35 +0000

To spare u searching wrong way, thought i had find something to circumvent this, it was quicksilver, since i ve upgraded to SL and QS as well, proxy objects and/or qucksilver are not working any more on these files manipulations

By: video

video — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:31:30 +0000

I’ve been using Macs since 1987.

Moving files around ON a drive, you don’t need cut, you don’t need copy.

From an open window, select the files you want to move, grab them all in one fell swoop, drag to the main drive icon, and use the spring load function to move them to the new location.