[Diggory Laycock]

Does anyone else miss OS 9's System Folder behaviour - where if you dropped something on to the system folder it would move it to the appropriate sub-folder?

I'd love to see the Library directories inherit this behaviour in OS X -

e.g. drop a file that has the .saver extension onto the Library folder and it gets moved to the Screen Savers directory.

there are lots of things that could be auto sorted (or you could be given a list of possible directories if it were a common format (e.g. an image))

If you'd like this feature to be resurrected suggest it at the feedback page - I have.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

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[eevyl]

I started some time ago an AppleScript to do just that. With Mac OS X 10.2 you can attatch AppleScripts to folders, and this AppleScript I did was able to move the dropped items into the corresponding folders based on the extension.

If I have time I may finish it and release it...

[barbarian]

yes... amen. I wish we had certain presets (screensavers, fonts, and so on). Also it would be great if you could set up routing rules for any folder simply by "getting info" on it and then setting a set of rules similar to the way you can set the default app for documents.

[gorickey]

I agree, that would be a nice "feature" to have back...

[awaspaas]

I don't think you'll get any arguments about how useful this would be. The question remains whether this is a prioritiy for Apple, in a time where more whiz-bang media type stuff is at the top of the list undoubtedly.

This would be a great, easy 3rd-party app to make.

[eevyl]

Originally posted by awaspaas:
I don't think you'll get any arguments about how useful this would be. The question remains whether this is a prioritiy for Apple, in a time where more whiz-bang media type stuff is at the top of the list undoubtedly.

This would be a great, easy 3rd-party app to make.

No need for an app, as I said an AppleScript is enough to bring back this feature.

[TC]

I wish application writers would be more consistent about where they save data as well.
It would make backing things up a lot easier.

Microsoft saves your Entourage mail in the Documents folder.
If you want your Safari bookmarks you'll find them in Library.
Other Applications save their preferences in Library/Preferences and some put them in Library/Application Support

It would be nice if you could know which stuff you need to keep when you do a clean system install and which things are best left alone, like some plists which could be corrupt after several system updates.

[gatorparrots]

So eevyl, is this thread enough motivation to get you to finish and release your AppleScript? It would be handy for lab managers and support techs to have this kind of folder action to deploy on systems.

[jayg]

It really should be a standard Finder feature, but until then... http://www.inferiis.com/products/alfred/