02-09-10 16.02 Tannis Baker wrote recently:
>My Claris Email Files folder has alot of stuff in - not all user related >- which files exactly would you suggest one move? Tannis, What is this stuff doing in the Emailer Files folder? Why does it need to be there? Do you go a lot into this folder? I never open app folders. I just install the app, drag an alias to the excellent Dragthing dock and more or less forget about the applications folder until I upgrade the application in question. I try and keep manuals and stuff in a "manuals" folder in my user hierarchy or in the "shared files" folder. Then I put an alias to the manual, next to the app icon in Dragthing. I also open app folders from Dragthing with one click, saving me from diving in to the Finder and dig up the apps. I don't have this problem as you described, as I only have my scripts, many of them tweakeed by myself and my 600MB Mail Database in "Emailer Files". The size is another reason for me to keep it on another disk. If you want to share the scripts folder or other info from "Emailer files folder" for more users, it would be more appropriate in my opinion to move the scripts folder to the "Applications (Mac OS 9)" folder and make aliases from that in each users respective Emailer Files folder. This could work for most stuff you want available elsewhere. In my Emailer application folder, which is in "Applications (Mac OS 9)", there is only the Emailer 2.0v3 application and the preferences file (keeping it there mean it will survive OS upgrades and reinstalls on the main drive). Everything else is in the Emailer files folder in my user hierarchy. I also keep my downloads folder next to the Emailer files folder, so I don't have to get to that one in there. Then in the downloads folder I have aliases to other subjects folders elsewhere in my user hierarchy. So unless I want to move a file directly from Emailers message window, I move in Finder to the correct alias instead, so I don't end up with 1000+ files in there and also have a nice user hierarchy structured by subject, jobs and so on. I was meaning to write a disc script for autosorting the files, but I haven got around that yet. I try to have the same subject hierarchy also inside Emailer too as well as in URL Manager, my browsers, Palm Desktop and so on. Took me along time to build this hierarchy though, but the one I use works for me. I guess I've been very inspired of my studies in information architecture here. Did this make you any wiser? Thank you for reading this far Micke Bystrom Project Manager Web & Idea Developer ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
