freudenthaler wrote:
The new wording "Map to Correct Physical Folder" for me as a non-native-speaker of the Englishlanguage is a step back, becaus it is not clear if the word "correct" belongs to "physical folder" (adjective) or beeing a verb "to correct". While it doesn't make that much a difference in semantics, the old "relocate" was much easier for me to understand as would the suggestion of Jim have been. I also strongly dislike the term "physical" - as we all deal with "logical" structures like folders & directories, etc. on hard disks and not with their physical representation on the magnetic disc.
A short digression from a native speaker of British English.
One trouble with English as a common language is that British English, American English, International English and other variants have significant differences in the meaning of words and how they are used. Another is that the British are not taught English very well and often use it badly (especially in newspapers these days). As currently written and spoken by the majority of people in the UK, attention to context is often needed to establish what sense a word is intended to convey. A short phrase in a "context menu" does not give much context
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"To locate" does mean "to find" or "to discover the whereabouts of"; one might therefore expect "relocate" to mean "find again". "Relocate" is not actually listed in my late 1970s dictionary and I suspect it has come into use under the influence of American novels and films (aka "movies") where it is clear it is used for what "we" usually call "moving house".
When I first encountered "relocate folder" in IDimager I thought it must mean "move folder", and consequently I broke the perfectly good correspondence between folders on disc and my catalogue (using traditional British English spellings, but these are under assault from "foreign" influences). Clearly others have made the same mistake.
Before the recent change PSu used "Relocate this label" to move the label to a different place in the tree, but "Relocate folder" in the sense of "find again". Neither are "wrong" but such ambiguity, and inconsistency in a single application, is not desirable.
Can I suggest "
Move this label" and, as another attempt, "Change catalog-to-disk mapping of this folder". The latter might be over-long for the "context" and relies on computerese jargon, but I hope that it is correct, unambiguous and not too obscure.
