So I just managed to delete my entire Documents folder :/

azteched said:
Yes, but Finder is in no way powerful ;)
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Look to the Terminal my friend. :)

Finder is the tip of the iceberg and for a good reason. Your average Mac user (or Windows user come to think of it) neither understands nor needs access to the powerful underbelly of OS X.

Hell most users need protecting from it.
 
If by "tip of the iceberg" you mean "crap" then I agree with you. I've never seen anyone attempt to defend it before. Give me Explorer any day.
 
Caged said:
If by "tip of the iceberg" you mean "crap" then I agree with you. I've never seen anyone attempt to defend it before. Give me Explorer any day.
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Explorer? :eek:

I'd rather use Finder than Explorer and as I have said in another thread Finder does for me what it needs to do.

Explorer in Vista makes my skin crawl.

Of course other peoples millage may vary but i'm happy to use Finder, but on both platforms if I need to do anything complex I'll head for the command line.
 
Not much help to you now, but I have dropbox pointing at my documents folder - as long as I'm online, any change I make gets uploaded directly to dropbox - which has version control built in (it keeps records of any changes, so you can get back deleted files etc.)
 
Caged said:
If by "tip of the iceberg" you mean "crap" then I agree with you. I've never seen anyone attempt to defend it before. Give me Explorer any day.
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I don't understand. what makes it crap? It's a gui for accessing and managing my files - what more do you want?
 
I just pressed "Command - Delete" on my documents folder and an error came up saying that the folder is required by OS X and can't be deleted.

I assume you mean the documents folder in your home folder? (Bit late I know! Was searching for backup programs - ended up with CCC again! :))
 
It's not worth penalising the rest of civilisation because someone makes a mistake.

What about permissions?
What about Time Machine?

Two solutions to the issue.
 
This was on Tiger, and I definitely got no prompt.

I've got Time Machine running on my Desktop, and Leopard won't let me delete my Documents folder, so hopefully it won't happen on here :)
 
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