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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (69841)	10/8/2007 2:11:00 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) of 213183

Jeff, Oh yeah I forgot. I guess this is the successor to Journaling. I'm not too thrilled by Apple's "upgrades" to OSX's search function. The one thing that never fails to piss me off is the inability to search a single folder or directory which is a capability OS8 or 9 had. So subsequent searches were REALLY a downgrade on this feature. Jobs believes that our ever increasing inventories of files are going to make disk organization impossible and that the solution is the search. His outlook is entirely based on newbies and is not always correct. Yesterday I had a devil of a time trying to explain, OVER THE PHONE, to a friend that song files were not "kept in" iTunes. I tried to explain that the files were in the Drive > Users > music > iTunes > iTunes Music > Artist > Album folder... sheech! I tried to explain that when you play a tune OSX copies the file to the right folder. He had all sorts of problems. He or his screwed up Book had copied hundreds of music files to the desktop. iTunes allows drag and drop to the desktop thereby confirming to a newbie its some kind of folder full of files. In addition he was trying to create a file with a list of songs he had produced so that he could put a label on some burned disks. He was so confused I never got to the concept of get info organizing or printing playlists (another complaint for me is the lack of editing capacity for playlist print outs). Somehow he'd also created a folder or named files with the .mp3 suffix. He's using someone elses book which has the suffixes hidden which is STONE STUPID but I believe Mac come this way as the default which is STONE STUPID. So he either had files named .mp3.mp3 or folders with the .mp3 suffix and he couldn't figure out which was which because iTunes had confused him. In addition the computer was linking .mp3 files to iChat indicating the Desktop DB or permissions were fried. I finally told him I'd have to show him in person and run Disk Warrior and Disk Utility on it. This sucks and is all about iTunes' Microsoft like proprietary functions. Bad usability to have an app mimic a folder.

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