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Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - mattkime - 02-19-2010
Classic support
Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - Zoidberg - 02-19-2010
Added: Smarter services menu components. For instance, how about a smarter "Initial Caps of Words" where it knows not to capitalize things like And, The, Are, On, etc. in a phase.
Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - OWC Jamie - 02-19-2010
remove some of the iphoto import choices ?
Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - Lew Zealand - 02-19-2010
Zoidberg wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
I am not a SL user yet, so I don't know if this has been fixed/improved in the snowy cat, but... how about finally adding smart copy options in the Finder??? That was possible in OS9, but seemingly not in X. And there are a bunch of other Finder bugs that need to be fixed too.
PeterB -- I thought we had all the ones I had gotten used to over the years. I've also seen some add-ons that might bring the functionality to bear; what kind of smart copy options do you mean?
These are the options I *really* need.
How about an option to *continue* the copy after a file error and log the damn error? Linux does this.
How about an option to replace only changed items in subfolders?
Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - PeterB - 02-19-2010
Lew Zealand wrote:
[quote=Zoidberg]
[quote=PeterB]
I am not a SL user yet, so I don't know if this has been fixed/improved in the snowy cat, but... how about finally adding smart copy options in the Finder??? That was possible in OS9, but seemingly not in X. And there are a bunch of other Finder bugs that need to be fixed too.
PeterB -- I thought we had all the ones I had gotten used to over the years. I've also seen some add-ons that might bring the functionality to bear; what kind of smart copy options do you mean?
These are the options I *really* need.
How about an option to *continue* the copy after a file error and log the damn error? Linux does this.
How about an option to replace only changed items in subfolders?
Yup, Lew has gotten mostly what I would have said ... in OS9, you could use Smart Copy (from SmartAgent software) to do a variety of things; for example, completely replace target with source (a "normal" copy), or compare target and source and change both to match. Right now in OS X you can do this with a few different tools including CCC, SuperDuper, rsync, etc., but it's not Finder-level, nor is it particularly intuitive. And Lew is also correct that when it encounters a problem in the copying process, it just stops. I've also found that, in such an instance, it will even incorrectly copy things, thus destroying the target.
More info:
http://macosx.com/forums/apple-news-rumors-discussion/9800-smart-copy-replace-os-x-1-a.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/15846/2000/12/copyagent.html
Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - SKYLANE - 02-20-2010
(1) Classic Support
(2) One software app that has iCal & Address Book integrated into one package with a well implemented To Do List.
Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - Speedy - 02-21-2010
That the clock would be able to automatically be reset without having to open the Date and Time prefs panel every time.
Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - Panopticon - 02-21-2010
Speedy wrote:
That the clock would be able to automatically be reset without having to open the Date and Time prefs panel every time.
this...
... doesn't work for ya??
Re: what feature do you want in the next version of osx? - ka jowct - 02-22-2010
Yup, Lew has gotten mostly what I would have said ... in OS9, you could use Smart Copy (from SmartAgent software) to do a variety of things; for example, completely replace target with source (a "normal" copy), or compare target and source and change both to match. Right now in OS X you can do this with a few different tools including CCC, SuperDuper, rsync, etc., but it's not Finder-level, nor is it particularly intuitive.
I used to use an app called (I think) SpeedDoubler 8 in pre-X days, from the company that produced Conflict Catcher (Casady & Greene?). It allowed copying of only changed items, and it worked really well. I kept an alias of my backup folder (on an external drive) in my folder of current jobs, and after every round of changes, I just dragged the relevant job folder onto the alias and backed up. I would love to be able to do that in OS X.
I also miss some frivolous stuff, like Sounds4Fun. I know there is an update for OS X, but I can't find a way to make it do what the classic app did. That one used sound suitcases. You could store related sounds in a suitcase, and use Sounds4Fun to assign that whole suitcase to an event, such as restarting or emptying trash or inserting a disk. A sound would be grabbed at random from whatever suitcase you had assigned to an event, so that you didn't hear the same sound all the time for that event. I had a ton of sounds from Star Trek, 2001, Blakes 7 (made those myself), Red Dwarf, etc. You could also have the computer just say something at specified intervals. One day the head honcho was in my office vacillating endlessly about some minor change, as he tended to do, and suddenly HAL from 2001 said "Quite frankly, I wouldn't worry about that right now." It actually stopped Head Honcho in his tracks for a few seconds, something I had not seen before. Then he said "That WAS the computer, wasn't it?"