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AnIdiotOnTheNet
on Dec 5, 2022
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Finder aided this by being spacial. If you moved a window, then closed it, it stayed there the next time you opened it. If you moved a folder or file icon around it similarly stayed where you put it when you next opened up the window.
tambourine_man
on Dec 6, 2022
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Exactly. And the muscle memory you built over time made you open and click through folders extremely fast.
But I don’t know if it would scale to the terabytes of today.
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