[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Mac Finder buglet ?? (was: How FB^3 saved us $$$)

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From: BMichael@...
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:18:00 EST
>In Bill's triumphant emergency intervention with FB^3, it seems
>to me that a small Mac Finder buglet has floated to the surface:-
>
> > Then I fed PH Convert a list of the 108 references to change, 
> > and drag-and-dropped the source code files (700+ of them, 
> > about 100-150 at a time)
>
>Now why didn't Bill just drag and drop all 700+ onto the 
>PH convert icon?  A assure you it's infinitely more efficient
>than painfully selecting 150 at a time many times -- especially if
>one must not process the same file twice.
>
>The bald fact is that, on drag-and-drop'ing over 500 files, 
>the Finder flops and does nothing (for me).  The quantity of data 
>involved is paltry; there is really no excuse.

Hm... didn't know that. The real answer, of course, is that they were in 
different folders by subsystem, for ease in ftping both ways. :-) Had 
they been all in one place, I might have found this buglet. (Or not, from 
what Heather said.)

>The snob's answer is that Bill boobed.  He should have pushed
>one folder and programmed directory-indexing using
>...GetCatInfo...

Yep - and if I had the time between now and when I'll need V1.2, I 
would... but "quick and dirty" is about all I can manage at the moment. 
10 PM, just getting home, feed dogs, read email, go to bed, repeat...

Bill