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Please read the hint carefully-- this not about the 'results' pane!
Authored by: schaps on Sep 30, '04 09:08:43AM

I can't believe what I am reading here. I now know what happened to two folders I used to keep on my desktop to pile stuff into. I unfortunately overwrote my backup before I noticed them gone, but PLEASE READ this hint carefully-- it is not about trashing files that show up in the results section of the search pane-- it's about Find's ability to add just certain folders to its search 'places' window, so you don't have to search a whole hard drive when you know a file is just in specific directory. Then, if you later decide don't need that specific place to search any longer, you can remove it from your special search places-- but now I see if I drag it off, it deletes that whole directory. This is a terrble shock to me. Of course you should be able to delete files in the results section, but not directories in the search section!

I am quite sure you could drag search places off the search window in OS 9.



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Warning - the Find box can delete source folders!
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Oct 01, '04 12:47:08AM

I think you've said it in a nutshell: "Of course you should be able to delete files in the results section, but not directories in the search section!"

It's really as simple as that.



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