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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple HDBackup Zaps Applications
Message-ID: <1990Jan14.222952.3465@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 14 Jan 90 22:29:52 GMT
References: <21738@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <3716@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
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Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <3716@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> npreyer@mit-caf.UUCP (Norris Preyer) writes:
>In article <21738@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mck@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes
>about backing up a hard disk with HDBackup, reformatting the disk, 
>then restoring from the backup.  All applications and documents had 
>the generic icons.
>
>   It sure sounds like HDBackup didn't rebuild the invisible DeskTop file

This is interesting, since just two days ago someone from our user group
came by and described the same thing  happenning to him using HDBackup.

He was very specific, however, that all his *documents* had the correct
icons, but his *applications* appeared as generic document icons (blank
sheet of paper with the corner folded over).  He said he rebuilt the
DeskTop file, but that didn't help....

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