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Old 07-12-2013, 11:37 AM   #55
K. Molen
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Originally Posted by itimpi View Post
I am not sure if the original decision was made to speficially exclude a pointer based system...

Reasons I can think of off-hand include...
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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh View Post
Yes it is possible.

It was done as much to protect users from themselves as it was to protect the developers from fielding massive questions about disappearing books. Essentially it was a quality control measure forcing books into one location. This limited folks from moving things around or deleting them without realizing that it affected their library.
Thank you both for responding. I can certainly understand the logic behind doing what was done. I for one wish that optional manual storage management had been included as an advanced option during install, but I obviously understand why it won't ever be.

Thanks again for responding.
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