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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 21 Jan 2015 19:50:09 GMT
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On 2015-01-21, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> was all, like:
>> On 2015-01-21, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> Okay, so one time? In band camp? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> was all, like:
>>>
>>>> rewind a few years, and Apple was populated by A-listers because Apple
>>>> managemenet hired the best of the best.
>>>
>>> Was this before or after the iTunes update that deleted some people's
>>> external hard drives if they named them very very stupidly?
>
>> In fairness, it wasn't that the hard drives were named badly, but simply
>> that the hard drive names contained *spaces*.
>
> As I recall, you had to have a setup like
>
> /Volumes/Drive
> /Volumes/Drive Boot
>
> If Drive Boot was your boot drive then the installer would 
>
> rm -rf /Drive Boot/Applications/iTunes.app
>
> which would delete all the files on /Volumes/Drive
>
> Otherwise, the rm would fail and the update script would crash out.

Sounds about right.

> But it was a long time ago and details are fuzzy. I do remember thinking
> at the time, "Who the hell would have ever named their drives that way?"

I'm sure it made sense to them at the time. I wouldn't necessarily
attribute smarts to it - just simple user preference. There's no reason
we shouldn't be able to name drives however we wish. The alternative is
the nonsensical names you see on Windows drives. : )

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