MisterMe said:
Trash is emptied only at the request of the user. Prior to emptying the Trash, the user may inspect it at any time. I have no sympathy for the children who need to the computer to empty the Trash for them. Disaster Scenario (capacity-based): You inadvertently put the final draft of your research paper in the trash. You deliberately place that 10 minute porn clip in the trash, which triggers your Trash to empty. Now, guess what gets deleted before you can change your mind? Disaster Scenario (time-based): You put the final draft of your term paper in the trash an hour before you leave for Spring Break and a wonderful week at the beach. Half-way through your vacation you realize that its your good copy that's in the Trash. You don't worry because your trash is set to delete files after a week, but you will be home in time for you to retrieve your file. Well, you plane gets delayed. When you start-up your computer, poof goes your paper because it has been in the Trash longer than seven days.
Is it that difficult to understand how this works?!?!
And you arent getting how the Windows bin works. First off the bin doesnt dump all its contents at a given time. It never does this. Its on an per file basis. Your example. The default is 10% of a drive is dedicated to the bin. Lets say you dump your research paper in the bin. Then dump a file that eats all 10% of the bin. Windows will prompt saying the file can not fit in the recycling bin do you want to permanently delete it. You have the option of yet or no. [Ive experienced this twice in my life with ripping one of my DVDs. 10% of a 40GB drive. Think about it.] If yes it deletes the video file NOT your paper. And lets say for the sake of argument that its exactly 10% of your drive so it fits into the bin. Again it will prompt that its too big because the bin is smart enough to not erase the last item placed in the bin. And the bin will NOT scrub everything that is in there to make room for another honking file. Now sure three weeks, or several GB, later you may run into problems as the oldest items are purged out of that 10% to make way for new items but the point being is that Windows recycle bin gives you two things the Mac bin doesnt:
1. Flexibility in that I can make it act exactly like a Mac by slider the slider to 100% or not.
2. You dont have to baby-sit it to make sure you arent eating away at your disk space which becomes an issues when a HD becomes filled. Right now on my Tosh laptop I have a 60GB drive and I'm down to less then 4GB of free space left. (I really need to offload those movies.) I made the choice of setting the slider to two percent to keep from hitting that wall.
In my opinion its about flexibility. Apples method, like many things Im finding in the OS the more I look at it, is shoved down your throat because its what they think is best. You use a one button mouse because thats what youve used since day one. You used Finder because thats what youve used since day one. Youve dealt with their methodology surrounding the recycle bin and OS so much that to you its natural. Its the way it should be for YOU. Have you EVER thought about it from another point of view?
Yah in the end its only a recycle bin but again Im finding that this way of doing things is pervasive throughout OS X with flexibility coming from 3rd party apps. Which is all well and fine since Windows users get the same flexibility from 3rd party apps as well, but it just seems as if more hacks\3rd party software is required to get the OS the way YOU want it to be in OS X then in Windows. But again like the folks here defending OS X I could be a tad biased since Ive gone through Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, NT, 2K, XP, 2003 and my Mac experience consists of a ][e, high school lab use, and the local Apple store. Is it sad when you are on a first name basis with a couple of the reps?
But even then the more I look at OS X the more I think WTH did they do it that way. Or WTF is with you not being able to change that?
OK its 2AM and I'm babbling.
