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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Desktop Application Icons
Message-ID: <11611@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Nov 89 23:16:35 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8911141817.aa16455@ADM.BRL.MIL> UD182050@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Mike Aos) writes:
>When you have something on the desktop, and you copy a file from the orignal
>disk, to another disk, it is removed from the desktop.  I dunno, mebbe this
>is a feature?

Yes, and I think it's not only a (mis)feature, but more like a bug.
There are ways to work around the problem, but why should one have to?