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Know Your Data Format? How about reasonably intelligent applications?
Authored by: phearlez on May 10, '04 04:19:06PM

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect iTunes, when I pick a menu option titled "Burn PLAYLIST to Disc" (emphasis mine), to inform me that, in fact, it is NOT going to burn the playlist to disc, it's going to burn SOME of the playlist to disc.

That's not me not knowing my data format, that's an application failing [and yes, it's a failure even if I tell it to do something it cannot possibly do] without a warning or notification.

Think of it another way: if I select 100 files, 2 of which are read-only, and order the computer to delete them, it will inform me it was unable to delete them. I don't think you would suggest it would be reasonable for there to be no notification just because they're RO and I should have known my file status!



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