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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 22 Jan 2015 00:06:00 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:
>>>
>>> Oh, the bug was stupid, but still... Even if I had drives named
>>> something like that they'd be "Drive 1" "Drive 2" "Drive 3" and there
>>> wouldn't be a "Drive". I just can't imagine anyone running into that
>>> bug.
>
>> I can easily imagine names like "Macintosh HD", "Macintosh HD 2", and so
>> on.
>
> But those would not have triggered the bug. You'd have to have a drive
> named "Macintosh" and a boot drive named "Macintosh With a Space"

Right, bad example. So:

Kitten
Kitten #2

>> The point is we should be free to name drives as we wish without
>> fear of software erroneously deleting contents.
>
> I agree and I'm not defending the bug at all.

Cool.

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