Erik

You Win XP users probably all knew this, but still...: one of the big advantage of mac (OS9, probably also higher) is in my eyes the fact it allows one to change the colour of folders.

[saywhat] I just found out that XP allows this also. Just right-click on a folder and choose properties, get the tab customise and choose another icon... now, finally, I can start to clean up the chaos on two hdd's of 40GB, some 100CDRoms and 200 diskettes.

:} ?
}P !!!!!!!!!


OMG

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Bubble

Actually Erik, you've been able to change the icons of your folders for a while on windows os's, but i'm not sure which version this actually started with.

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theKeeper

It wasn't possible with Win98 so probably Win2k Bubble.

Thing is, i use the default size icons, and @ 1280 they're WAY too small to bother trying to create a decipherable icon image for them. [stuned]

Erik

What I do right now is use some of the clearly distinguishable symbols, like the magnifier for folders I checked, a question mark etc etc.
Thousands and thousands of files, and very often backups from backups etc etc etc...

Aarrrgghhh!
No one ever tells this to a puter debutante, and in three years I collected so much, and backed each item up several times on diskettes, later CD's, then also on another hdd and now I am stuck with an hour a days of checking and cleaning for at least a few weeks...DOH, as Mark would say...

as for images, I normally use the thumbnail or the filmstrip option as it offers me the chance of seeing each one. (didn't I see this one before,,,??? but in which folder was it...???)

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