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>> I liked the Amiga mechanism much better. You drag a file onto a disk
>> icon, it pops up a window saying the drive is write-protected, you
>> take the disk out, unprotect it, put it back in, and it automatically
>> clicks "retry" for you.
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> That can't be good, 'cause it assumes that user can and will do
> something to prevent the error, while computers Should Just Work.
Yes. Silently refusing to do what the user asked without telling them
why would be a far superior solution. Especially when the problem is
trivially fixable.
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