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Rendezvous File Sharing
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: CT
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Just something I was thinking about...
The current way that iPhoto and iTunes allow people to share both their music playlists and photo albums should be brought to the Finder. Just like in iPhoto or iTunes add a Sharing preference to the Finder Preferences Window. This would work just like iTunes or iPhoto, but a little different. From this preference you would say look for shared folders and if your share folders are enabled. Unlike iPhoto or iTunes that lists all your albums/playlists in that window their will be a brief instruction on how to share folders. You would do this right from the Finder, you would select a Folder then go to the Action Menu, or the File Menu, or a Command Click, and select Share this Folder... this would bring up a window asking for what you would like the share to be called (by default it would be the name of the folder selected) then a option for a username and password and under that a preference if its read only or read write. Then you would then click Share. On other peoples computers in the same local network it would just appear in the left bar of the Finder. If their was only one share it would just show that, if more then one from the same computer it would list the computer name in the sidebar, if more then one computer with share it would say something like "Shared Files" and then it would break down by computer.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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Good idea! 
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto
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No, great idea! 
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Between Sydney and Melbourne
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Originally posted by tRr:
No, great idea!
No F*king brilliant idea.
This should really be set up in the Ownership and Permissions section of get info...
I think this info pane needs an overhaul anyway, its way to confusing for the average user.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: France
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I like the idea, but it more or less exists in the Shared Folder, isn't it?
The way you describe it though is more Mac-style. I like it!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Wow! That sounds...um...exactly like how it was in OS 9.
Seriously, I think Apple intentionally left this out so they could make the file sharing in OS X Server seem more impressive.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Baltimore
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Actually I think they left it out because it would highlight some of the problems with networking in Panther.
Uner the current version of Panther, if I were accessing a user's shared folder and he/she logged off or disconnected from the network, my computer would hang for a good three minutes.
Of course, when OSX gets its networking act together, I really hope that this becomes a feature.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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How can Apple have such screwed up networking in their THIRD major update of OS X. They have had 5 years to make this right. This is becoming embarrassing for Mac-fans :o
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