Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!tut!funic!santra!cs.hut.fi!juh From: juh@cs.hut.fi (Juha Hyv|nen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Cleaning desktop file Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 90 09:28:34 GMT References: <14268@wpi.wpi.edu> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: jd231825@longs.lance.Colostate.Edu's message of 1 Aug 90 22:46:34 GMT 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?? ! ! 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. +........................ Try this at your own risk: 1. Copy the FCMT resource from the Desktop file (into the Scrapbook should be OK). 2. Rebuild the Desktop. 3. Insert the FCMT resource back into the Desktop file. / (.__o .. /_/ __/ Juha Hyvonen ! / ! !/ ) ! juh@cs.hut.fi ------