Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tellab5!wiseman From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Cleaning desktop file Message-ID: <3251@tellab5.tellabs.com> Date: 4 Aug 90 20:29:34 GMT References: <14268@wpi.wpi.edu> Sender: news@Tellabs.COM Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL Lines: 40 In article jd231825@longs.lance.Colostate.Edu (Jeff Detweiler) writes: >In article <14268@wpi.wpi.edu> macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg) writes: > > > Question: Is there some utility that will allow me to clean out my desktop > file WITHOUT losing the GetInfo comments?? > > Thanks. > > >The only program I can think of offhand that will won't lose the >GetInfo comments is DiskExpress (commercial). I bet there's some way >you could use Resedit to copy out just the Get Info information from >the Desktop and later reinsert it once you've rebuilt the Desktop. > >Anyone ever done this? Yes! It has been a while but I will try to explain. But FIRST, if you have sliverlining, Lacie describes this procedure in the manual that comes with it (I forget where). Basically all you do is open the desktop file and find the ???? resource (sorry folks I forget which one but if you open it, it will be obvious that it contains all the Get Info comments for the disk. What I do when I forget like this is to format a new floppy and put a single file on it then using the Get Info dialog I put a comment in that I am sure to find. I then open the desktop file with ResEdit and since the file has so few resources in it, it is easy to find the one for comments. Anyway, once you've found the name and number that I cannot remember at the moment :-(, you are ready to go). You copy and paste the resource into anything you feel like, preferrable a junk file if you are not too familiar with ResEdit. Then just rebuild the desktop. When you are done, reverse the process and copy the resource back into the desktop file. Anyway, that's one way of doing it, actually I would prefer a utility that I saw called FixDeskTop or something like that. Anyway, hope this helps some.` -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM