[Serge_N_Gin]

Poll: Mac or PC?

Personally, I'm searching for the Mac & PC button but it's not there? I argue with myself about whether one is better than the other .... then I remember the following and half of me blushes ...

Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft employees are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Microsoft employees each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple engineers buy only a single ticket.

"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a Microsoft employee.
"Watch and you'll see," answers the Apple engineer.
They all board the train. The Microsoft employees take their respective seats, but all three Apple engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "ticket please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.

The Microsoft employees saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Microsoft employees decide to copy the Apple engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Apple engineers don't buy a ticket at all.

"How are you going to travel without a ticket" says one perplexed Microsoft employee.
"Watch and you'll see," answers an Apple engineer.

When they board the train the three Microsoft employees cram into a restroom and the three Apple engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the Apple engineers leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the Microsoft employees are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please"...

[troyhark]

Originally Posted by ferrija1

Congratulations, you two have just written a short essay on a the behavior of moving a file to a directory with a file of the same name. Come on, even if the Finder does have that one flaw, that's only one thing that invokes your reasoning that the Finder is one of "the crappiest and clunkiest apps ever made." Might you have any additional rationale for your derogatory remarks towards the Finder?

Yes, but I haven't got time to list them all.
Though I'm sure I mentioned a couple of its stupidities in my novel up above.

[troyhark]

Originally Posted by VegasACF

I'm actually quite a proficient reader.

So why do you keep misinterpreting?

I call your statement into question. Nowhere do you state that you are ever given an opportunity to keep the Mac OS from simply overwriting your files. What you state is that the Mac simply overwrites everything. This is patently false. It may not be what you meant, but it is what you said. No misquoting (I quoted you directly), no misrepresentation (again, your quote is verbatim, courtesy the "quote" function built into these fora.

I said
'Finder is all or nothing with no feedback as to which data is most recent'
Whereas you seem to have read it as
'Finder is all or nothing with no feedback'
There's a very big differerence between those sentences, as if you miss out the underlined part your interpretation would be correct.
An apology would be nice.
Besides the point was not even about being given the option not to continue as that is the same on both Mac + PC, but the implications of ignoring the warning on either OS, which is completely different.
Finders Deletes and Replaces entire folder, Explorer only replaces files with same name [if you want it to], leaving the rest intact.

I'm simply too busy to bother with the rest of your reply. The above is sufficient.
Have a wonderful evening.

Shorthand for 'I don't have an actual response. So I'll fob you off with a repeat of my initial misunderstanding.'