Sujet : Re: Desktop file "flies" away
De : 186283 (at) *nospam* ud0s4.net (186282@ud0s4.net)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 28. Aug 2024, 03:21:09
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On 8/27/24 5:28 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 27/08/2024 09:36, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
As for the Linux distro - not all THAT much diff
anymore as to where 'Desktop' is located. If this
was a real prob, well, and I had a Win user who
did this too often, had to increase the time SAMBA
kept backups because of her bad mouse-skills. She
once dragged an ENTIRE share into the Win trash.
I bui8lt a linux system for an ageing friend. He managed to drag the *entire* desktop folder into the desktop folder.
So the file tree was /home/usr/Desktop/Desktop/****
I take my hat off to him. Sheer genius
Indeed pure genius. GUI file-managers make this all
the easier. Cut tree, paste tree into the same dir.
For all my years doing corp work, it was just *amazing*
how *many* ways users could figure out how to screw
things up :-)
The unsteady-mouse lady was actually highly intelligent
and organized - valuable. However she constantly drank
HUGE coffees all day. I think this got her nerves
over-active and, when in a hurry or distracted, she'd
just make overly-large cut-n-pastes. Anyway, DID have
to revise wastebasket-retention policy JUST to make
sure she couldn't do permanent mass damage. A mere
few days wasn't good enough - she might not need a
particular dir tree for a week or two depending and
then it's "Where did it GO ???!!!".
Similar frustrations with DBs - I'd say up to HALF the
code associated with any prompt was crude 'AI' intended
to detect/flag/fix user errors. SAYS "Date" and they'd
want to put a SS number in there or a date WAY out of
bounds. We had one euro native and she'd unthinkingly
do dates in the euro day-month format instead of the
US month-day. A lot of dates have numbers that are
within bounds either way ... "5/10/" vs "10/5/" so
this was a real pain in the ass and other context
clues had to be examined during the save phase.