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From: vallon@sboslab15.cs.sunysb.edu (Justin Vallon)
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Subject: Re: Keeping files on the desktop dangerous?
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Date: 18 Jan 90 21:26:42 GMT
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In article <3001@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>, yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross
Yahnke, MACC) writes:
> In article <18599@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
(Thomas Summerall) writes...
> >[Is there a problem keeping files/folders on the desktop?]
>
> The only problem I've heard about is that diskette files left on the
> desktop won't get copied when doing a diskette to diskette copy. Don't
> know if this has been fixed in the latest 6.0 release.

I though disk-to-disk copies whose capacities are the same become sector
copies.  At least that's what happens now (Finder under System 6.0.2).
If that was a problem, then it appears to have been fixed.

When you disk-to-disk copy to a disk of different capacity, then a file-
copy is done.  I don't know if it also copies the files on the desktop,
but I suppose it is (sort of) correct, from a user-interface point of view,
to copy those files that are only in the disk window, not on the desktop.

> >>>      Internet: yahnke@macc.wisc.edu        <<<
> >>>   Mille voix chuchottent <<c'est vrai>>    <<<

-Justin
vallon@sbcs.sunysb.edu