Re: Need to select MANY files for my app

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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:54:51 -0400, "Rick Rothstein"
<rickNOSPAMnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>However, before you (that is, MJ) do this, consider what you are asking
>of the user (even if that is only you) in the extreme case of 10000
>files. Let's say you can continuously and without pause click on 2
>filenames per second.

>10000 (files) / 2 (files/sec) / 60 (sec/min) = 83.333 minutes

>You will be clicking away for just under an hour and a half. Personally,
>I don't think you could keep up a constant click rate for this long a
>time period, so it will take you considerably longer than an hour and a
>half to select your files. I definitely believe you should rethink this
>approach before coding the solution any farther.

Rick, you are forgetting the 'phone calls to the lawyer asking about
RSI compensation

- not to mention skulking in the lavatory when faced with a really
tedious job.

I think this UI is definitely a candidate for the chamber of horrors

There is another point, on a FAT system 10,000 files in one directory
is going to be very slow.
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