>> 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.
>>
> 
> 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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