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Permanently disable the Finder - bad hack | just use the 'Quit' menu
Authored by: zahadum on Jul 27, '06 10:22:45AM

moving & hiding files is a total hack! -- it is not to be recommended.

In general, the design of osx was predicated upon a degree of abstraction over system/physical recsources (unlike Classic). Hence the use of unix-style (non-binary) configuration files - plists, etc.

The correct way to control the Finder is simply to restore the (disabled by default) Quit menu.

there are a couple of 3rd party utilities out there that do this.

once people start reflexively thinking that the solutuions to their problems is to directly manipulate any structure that they want to control, they are in for a world of pain - because they expose them to a myriad of brittle dependencies with they must become intimately familiar.

that is NOT mac thinking (ie chasing the machine).

that is windows thinking.

there should be de-mod points for BAD tips :-)

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Permanently disable the Finder - bad hack | just use the 'Quit' menu
Authored by: oncmonkey on Jul 27, '06 01:53:23PM

Why is there always some bright spark who replies to a hint with "just do [manual operation x]", as if this is a solution? Just manually quit the Finder every time you log in or restart? Nice. So elegant. So Mac-like.

Hey look, poster #3 actually addressed the problem.



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