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Sandy Sandy McMurray is a long-time technology journalist whose work has appeared in Time, the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Sun, Report on Business, Profit, and other sources. Between 1995 - 2002, Sandy wrote a weekly column about technology for the Toronto Sun, and served as Technology Editor for five Sun Media newspapers. He has been publishing on the Web since 1996.
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August 24, 2005

Virtual folders and other confusion

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Posted by Sandy

smartfolders.jpgWhile catching up on Scoble the other day, I followed a link to Rory Blyth. Rory suggests that the Virtual Folders feature in Windows Vista needs a new name.

Unfortunately for the Vista team, the problem goes deeper than the name. The Virtual Folders feature could easily cause people to accidentally erase or overlook important files.

And -- bad news for smug Mac users -- the Smart Folders feature in Mac OS X is only slightly less confusing and just as dangerous.

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