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- From: duffiem@wl.com (Mark Duffield)
- Subject: Re: Desktop file's getting screwed up, What to do?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.021510.26660@wl.com>
- Followup-To: duffiem@wl.com
- Organization: Parke-Davis Biotechnology
- References: <BxM45K.3v@newcastle.ac.uk> <1dudukINNhg5@transfer.stratus.com> <92322.134721AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:15:10 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In article <92322.134721AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET> Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >Me four....
- >
-
- Is "Me five" overkill, or will it show Apple that this problem is more wide-
- spread than they think it is?
-
- >
- >I have basically two complaints about A/UX; the first is that sound
- >is all screwed up (which wouldn't be so bad if I weren't a professional
- >musician), and what I've considered a screwed-up desktop. I first noticed
- >it when custom icons (the kind you past into the get info window)
- >disappeared, even though some poking around with ResEdit showed that
- >the related invisible Icon files were still healthy. Futher symptoms:
- >
- > o windows often revert to the default size
- > o applications such as Fetch or CompactPro seem incabable of
- > giving files anything other than the generic icon
- > o a "crash" (i.e., I have to cmd-control-e, or telnet in and
- > kill my login process to unfreez a Mac application) almost
- > invariably screws up the desktop
- >
- >And, probably, more that I can't think of at the moment. As a result of
- >all this, I've become quite adept at rm'ing the Desktop DB and DF files--
- >that reminds me, neither cmd-opt nor shift on login do anything, claims
- >in the manual to the contrary notwithstanding--and even had a shell script
- >that did the trick at one point.
- >
- >None of this would be especially annoying if it didn't take a good ten
- >minutes or so to rebuild the desktop. I've tried making backup copies
- >of the Desk*DB and Desk*DF files, but that doesn't seem to do much of
- >anything constructive.
- >
- >Anybody from Apple out there listening?
- >
- >b&
-
- I don't know about the sound problems, but I have EXACTLY the same desktop
- problems listed above. I have also noticed that any newly installed mac
- program, regardless of location (internal HFS drive, external A/UX drive,
- remote Appleshare volume, in AppDisk), will receive the generic app icons.
- I have noticed that Microsoft products tend to loose their icons more often
- than others (maybe this is a plot by Microsoft to get us to buy Windows NT :)
-
- Another thing that I have noticed is that after the finder freezes and I abort
- with the cmd-ctrl-e sequence, the CommandShell icon will be generic when I
- log back in the first time. If I logout and back in immediately, that icon
- will usually change back to normal on its own. However, I too have become
- good at nuking the Desktop DF, DB, and .fs* files.
-
- Apple, this is more an annoyance than anything else, but it sure would be nice
- if the desktop was a bit less flaky.
- --
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- Mark J. Duffield |
- Parke Davis Biotechnology | Beer is a beverage, not a projectile.
- (duffiem@wl.com) |
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