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#50
Originally Posted by ruskie View Post
And reading warnings that are there usually helps. I REALLY REALLY REALLY wish users would read what's happening and if they DON'T understand what it is to ask first, hit OK second. If my mom can do it why not anyone else(and she actually is capable of doing updates to her xubuntu system without me being there)?

Seriously if it's not a hammer don't try to be smart about it. Learn what it is. We all needed to learn things to make them work.

If a device askes you: I'm gonna delete this here thingy from that there thingy?

If you have no clue what that means go ask first or read the manual.
Ok, let's say someone is very careful, reads the manual (we'll ignore the non-existence of this part of the manual!) and checks the forums. They don"t click OK, because they are well informed, their English is good enough that they aren't confused by the slightly ambiguous wording of the pop-up message, they've read enough forum to understand that "delete all" behaves differently from "delete one" repeated, and they don't want to remove the mutually confirmed contact from the IM/Skype server. But they don't need that person on their N900 any more in their phone contact list.

So now what should they do?

It seems there is a lack of useful solution here...