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From: marksm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MISplaced HD files (was Loosing files using WB)
Message-ID: <1275@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Aug 89 12:59:15 GMT
References: <21914@louie.udel.EDU> <201@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <499@lexicon.com>
Reply-To: marksm@syma.susx.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen)
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In article <499@lexicon.com> fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham) writes:
>In article <201@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> rjtatz@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Robert J. Tatz) writes:
>> When I clicked once on
>> a drawer icon and moved it one pixel it DISAPPEARED.  It jumped
>> into another directory whose icon was two icons directly above it.
>If you really can reproduce it, Commodore may be interested.
> It has happened to several people, including me as recently as this
>weekend.  As you found, the files are usually just hiding somewhere.

I have done this (nondestructively :-) a couple of times, and the
situation is always similar. As reconstructed by my brain afterwards, it
goes like this: Open a window on the workbench that has lots of drawer
icons in it. Now move lots of the drawer icons around, but DON'T
snapshot them. (Best is to use shift-left-click to move half a dozen of
them around in the window.) Now blithely move another drawer icon (one
you haven't yet moved) to somewhere recently occupied by one of the
icons you moved first. Most times, the drives will get busy, and the
drawer you just moved will disappear, and eventually show up inside one
of the drawers you first moved. 

So it's like the workbench thinks the drawers are where they were last
snapshot, not where they are on the window.

>Has anyone permanently lost stuff ?

I've never lost anything permanently like this myself.

Hope this helps someone,

Mark.
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