For all that's good about Mac OS X and Apples legendary usability, it has the single most dangerous, stupid and braindead function of all operating systems, ever:
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This happens when you drag a folder into another folder, which already contains a folder with that name.
If you are a Windows user, you know what happens next: The folder contents will be merged, which is usually what you expect.
What happens when you click 'Replace' here? Well, Apple is at least honest, because it will do exactly what it says: It Replaces the folder. Your old folder is gone.
The braindead thing? The old folder doesn't go into the Trash Can. If you delete a file in either Windows or Mac OS X, it goes into the trash can, so you can restore it. If you Replace a folder in Mac OS X Finder, the old folder is permanently gone.
With all due respect for the fine work the software engineers did in the past decade and a half: Whoever is responsible for thins function needs to be punched in the face, preferably once for every single folder that users - who are expecting a OS that values user friendliness to perform better - permanently lost.
What's even worse: There isn't even an option to merge. Really guys? 'The world's most advanced desktop operating system' does not even have a function to merge two folders through its primary file management tool?
(PS: For a similarly dangerous function, try moving a folder over the network and briefly interrupt the connection. Chances are good that the folder gets deleted from the source since it was moved, but doesn't fully arrive at the destination because the connection got interrupted. Yes, the worlds most popular desktop UNIX fails miserably at basic network functionality.)
Update: Turns out that OS X Lion finally learned to merge, but only when copying stuff. If you are moving folders within the same Volume, move is the default. Holding down the option key allows you to merge:
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This is arguably a lot better than any previous OS X Version. Still, it's way inferior to Windows 95 which happily merges on move (saves me the cleanup afterwards) and can also merge a subfolder with it's parent folder, something else OS X can't do:
This isn't needed that often, but useful when extracting a zip file yields a folder/folder/files structure.
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Static Memory Allocation…
One of the biggest frustrations I have with classic Mac OS is the completely braindead way it handles memory. In most operating systems, a program grabs and releases memory as it needs it using a either a nasty old Unix kernel call named malloc() or some modern equivalent that does the same thing. Lots of OSes even can do that sort of stuff without special help from programs these days… But not the old-school Mac. Instead you have to set an amount of memory to request in each program’s settings box and then hope it never needs more RAM than you think it ought to… While an application crash due to lousy RAM management is annoying, it can be fixed and isn’t really the end of the world… Known as a “Type 11”, these errors are as common as General Protection Faults in Windows 3.1, and you can learn to live with your program dying strangely by remebering to save every few minutes.
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Unfortunantely, the OS itself (or at least the File Manager/Desktop component known as the Finder) seems prone to these errors as well, and those really ARE the end of the world (or at least the end of your session) While it’s possible to get a 2KB utility that lets you fix the problem with great ease, it seems to me like Apple really messed up there. Sure it’s a 10+ year old bug, but that doesn’t mean its not annoying still…
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Anyway, this is really just a small annoyance when compared with the fact that I have a free computer to do my papers and graphics work on, but it’s something to look out for if you should choose the “Old Mac” route to cheap computing supremacy.