OT: Stupid Bloody Android

tim... · 2017-06-30T11:07:30+00:00

Actually ES file explorer , but as it comes pre-installed, the average numpry would think that it's part of Android. 1) Whilst trying to create a new folder I accidentally selected "file" and it created a file with the extension .docx. Now, because I don't have MS Word on my device, every time that I try to select this file it pops up with "do you want to install MS Word" and if you enter "no" it just goes back to the directory listing. But I don't want to select it to edit, you idiot. I want to select it to delete it, and you're not letting me - I can't say yes to installing MS Word to keep it happy, as that's a paid for App. (Yes, I know that there are backdoor ways of deleting files, but why should I have to use a backdoor workaround when the front door is broken?) 2) I wanted to move some files from one directory to another on the same media (AIH the one that I created above). So, instead of just creating a link in the new directory pointing to the same physical file on the media and deleting the link from the old directory, it wants to physically make a second copy of the file and then delete the old one. Quite apart from taking 10 minutes to make this unnecessary copy, if the media is full it refuses to do it at all claiming "not enough space"! This is file management 101 level stuff - where did they get these people? tim

Jun 30, 2017 69 Replies

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tim... 9 years ago

I've already explained that

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Mike Tomlinson 9 years ago

En el artículo , tim... escribió:

Um, RTFM?

"man" = manual. Handbook, user guide, etc.

There's a saying: "Unix /is/ user-friendly. It's just picky about who its friends are"

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Mike Tomlinson 9 years ago

En el artículo , Tim Watts escribió:

+1. That thing.

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Mike Tomlinson 9 years ago

En el artículo , tim... escribió:

jeez. you're hard work.

[root@somebox ~]# man 1 man

man(1) man(1)

NAME man - format and display the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS man [-acdDfFhkKtvVwW] [--path] [-m system] [-p string] [-C config_file] [-M pathlist] [-P pager] [-B browser] [-H htmlpager] [-S section_list] [section] name ...

DESCRIPTION man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. If you specify section, man only looks in that section of the manual. name is normally the name of the manual page, which is typically the name of a command, function, or file. However, if name contains a slash (/) then man interprets it as a file specification, so that you can do man ./foo.5 or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.

What you really mean is, you *won't*. There's a group of people who for reasons best known to themselves think consulting a manual is beneath them. It's silly, especially when *nix used to come with a whole bookshelf's worth of manuals.

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Huge 9 years ago

This isn't "T i m", again, is it?

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It's always mystified me that people acquire a complex and expensive tool, won't look at the manuals, then complain when it cuts their hand off (metaphorically, in the case of computers).

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