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- From: steve.herman%express@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Steve Herman)
- Subject: Disappearing Icons
- Message-ID: <steve.herman-260193171627@128.158.4.199>
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- Organization: BCSS
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:12:14 GMT
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- We have been having the following problem when running applications from a
- Novell server. Actually we have a very large network with several Novell
- servers and the problem occurs on most of them.
-
- It seems that when the users run various commercial applications which
- reside on a Novell file server (primarily the Microsoft Office suite) and
- store their documents locally on their hard drive the documents
- periodically, and fairly consistently lose their application specific
- icons.
-
- The documents on the users hard drive then begin displaying the generic
- document icon (rather than the document icon associated with the
- application). Double-clicking the document gives the error which states
- "the application which created the document could not be found". The user
- *IS* connected to the Novell file server when these errors occur.
-
- The only fix we've found for the situation is to clear the initted bit on
- the application and then double-click the application to cause it to be
- re-read into the server's desktop database. We've also tried completely
- re-building the desktop on the servers.
- Both of these fixes are only temporary and the problem seems to re-occur
- after only a few days.
-
- Does anyone know what could be causing this problem and if so is there a
- more permanent fix?
-
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- - Steve Herman - BCSS
- - Boeing Computer Support Services
- - Huntsville, AL
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-