You are often try to make simple things complicated
The average user, you are not one of it, understands the term removable independent of the technical way. Even some virtual drives have the attribute removable.
Horst; I am trying to make complicated things easier to understand. In particular I feel that the term “removable” should continue to
mean
* Admitting of being removed.
* Able to be removed.
* Capable of being removed or taken away or dismissed
I think your ill-thought reaction to my post has ignored the salient features: that the Tools, Options, Indexes dialogues makes poor use of the term “removable”. I have no idea why you think that the Tools, Options, Indexes dialogues are simple. The data brings me to the opposite conclusion.
We are using the adjective “removable” in the context of personal and business computers. I have suggested that a removable drive (or medium such as a CD disk) is one which can be removed with the fingers alone; that is, there is
absolutely no need for tools such as screwdrivers, pliers, spanners(wrenches) and the like. As an example, you ought to be able to get on a bus or train carriage and ask any passenger to remove a removable drive.
The use of the term “removable” is the issue here, not my personal activities.
I don’t know how much research you do, but typically I turn to the
Forums of Everything and search and then read posts relevant to the subject matter.
Search found 240 matches: Removable
Search found 191 matches: Automatically Include
Note that these search results are
Topics, not Posts
Now many of the posts in these topics may overlap, but there are probably 200 Topics,
not posts, trying to explain the business of automatically including (or not) removable drives.
And no, I did not read every topic, let alone every post.
But I read enough to realize that the dialogue boxes for Tools, Options, Index are bewildering to the user.
The dialogue boxes for Tools, Options, Index are complex, complicated.
Why are so many people confused about the impact of just these two terms alone?
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How would you go about explaining over a dozen settings shown in the screenshot above for FAT drives, and the dozens in the forms for NTFS, ReFS, network Drives, Folders (meaning included folders), File Lists, Network Index, Properties, Content, and Exclude (meaning excluded folders). Caution: you are looking at possibly a hundred or more terms, many of them identical in wording,
but not in impact on the user (as an example “Automatically include new fixed volumes”).
You need to consider this question before you suggest that I am complicating things. Please provide an answer.
That a removable USB drive is considered to be a Fixed Volume while it is sitting in a locked fire-resistant box is yet another complication.
My discussions with Void have brought us to a point where we are agreed that “something must be done”, but given Void’s workload, that is unlikely to arise until 1.6 at the earliest. That is acceptable.
In the meantime dear old 1.5 has been public for
at least two years, and I must anticipate that it will be at least another two years before 1.6 becomes available.
What are we to do, in the meantime, with the hundreds of users who have to date contributed 2,766 topics (not posts!) to
the debate?
I await your careful answers to the questions I have posed here.
Chris
