Re: Faster way to delete files and Select files, in groups.

[jjenning stetson edu (jared l. jennings)]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:28:25PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
> To me it sounds like a new search method followed by the freedom to
> remove all the files that appear in the results. I used it in NT, but
> with names or extensions, I performed a search with a criteria, then
> did operations in the results (not only delete, but open, rename and
> such). IMHO search that do not allow manipulation are a not useful,
> and search criterias should provide a nice set, not just names.
> 

well shoot, why not let the user make such searches first-class sorts of objects, and call them vfolders? put a little emblem on them to notify the user that they're virtual. they would really be a special file containing the search criteria and starting point of the search, and maybe cached previous search results

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