While I am a proud owner of a iMac 24″ with all the trimming – I have come across 3 ‘features’ that in my eyes are plain stupid on the OS X Platform. Remember that I have various machines running XP, Vista, Ubuntu – so I am not a die hard Apple fanatic that will defend it no matter what, its good but not perfect.
REPLACE FILES
Let us imagine that I am moving some files around from drive to drive and a make a directory called Home_Movies. I start by moving some files but later choose the much quicker method of dragging the original “Home_Movies” onto the new drive. OS X at this point explains that there is already files in there as follows:
If you click STOP – nothing happens but if you click Replace – that is 100% what it does – it replaces whatever whatever was in there with the folder you are moving and the stuff that was already in there? Well that is gone for good, it is not in the recycle bin. Windows / Linux by default MERGES the files which makes more sense to me. B very careful of this feature otherwise you will loose a lot of files in the process.
IMPORT = REPLACE?
One of the programs I use is Wallet – it stores all your Serial numbers, login details and basically allows you to manage all your stuff in one place. I had another Wallet database file and silly me IMPORTED this into mine which resulted in mine been 100% replaced. Did the programmers not see fit to merge more than one database together? I can tell you now the windows version does import and merges the two – is this a new feature of the Mac?
iWeb – No Save, open or anything
iWeb is easy for the beginner to design web sites but did they not feel to Import, Open or whatever existing sites? What happens if you loose the file – if it goes from the side bar – that is your web site gone for good. Even Frontpage has all of these features and I see that as a very low level beginners program. This is a case of “My way or bust” attitude from the Mac programmers – very sloppy and very bad.
