Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Workbench Discard bug Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 89 08:45:21 GMT References: <4657@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Distribution: na Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 38 In-reply-to: hull@hao.ucar.edu's message of 10 Oct 89 03:05:10 GMT In article <4657@ncar.ucar.edu> hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull) writes: However, a week ago while working with a bunch of files in my ProjectMaster drawer on my hard disk, I did a shift click on three Icons, selected the Workbench "Discard" menu item, and of course got the "Ok to Discard?" requester. When I approved the discard of the three selected Icons and their associated files, the workbench deleted _ALL_ of the Icons and the related files in this entire directory (residing on my hard disk in an OFS partition). Gee, was I ever surprised! Gee, was I ever p*'d. Is this a bug in WB 1.3? Are any of these bugs _FIXED_ in WB 1.3.2? Howard Hull hull@hao.ucar.edu Workbench is unchanged in 1.3.2. What probably happened to you is this: * you double-clicked on the icon for the ProjectMaster drawer. The ProjectMaster icon was selected, and its window appeared on the screen. * you shift-clicked on the three icons in the drawer. This selected them IN ADDITION to the ProjectMaster Icon. * When you selected "Discard", it threw away everything including the ProjectMaster drawer. This is not a bug, but a "feature" of the Workbench. The solution is to de-select all icons before shift-clicking a new set of selections. The easiest way to do this is to single-click on the first selection and shift-click on the rest. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM