[Cialug] Argh/Microsoft/Argh

James Shoemaker james at dhlake.com
Wed Jan 27 11:19:28 CST 2010


Jeff Davis wrote:
>>   Since it's called a recycle bin it is called something else.
> 
> I meant them using the word Delete, not what they call the recycle bin.
> I don't have an issue of the concept or the implementation since you
> can change the behavior.
> It annoys me that they train people to think deleted doesn't mean deleted.
> 
> If I right click I should see the word Trash or something similar,
> instead of the word Delete.
> It gives people the impression that you can un-delete things.  IMHO
> this is the top of the
> slippery slope that leads too many people to fail to properly backup
> their data.

   It should be "send to recycle bin" rather than delete.  Especially 
when command line Delete doesn't send to the recycle bin, just the one 
in explorer.

James


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