"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message
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> > After waiting for it to get to 97% of the download and finally giving up
> > and going to dinner, I come back after 2 hours to find a dialog box
saying
> > "This is going to take about an hour to install what you just
downloaded.
> > Are you sure you want to start it?"

> Hehe, I was copying over about 80GB of data to an external harddrive, I
> watched it for about 5 minutes while it was "discovering files" or some
such
> until it said 2 hours 53 remaining or whatever.  I came back a few hours
> later and there was a "Do you want to copy this file without it's
> properties?" dialog box and it had hardly started the copying!  Is it too
> hard to ask that it continues to copy other files while it is waiting for
> you to answer a question about one file?

Ah, but what would the point be for an *Operating System* to make managing
files easy and logical?

/sarcasm

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