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From: draphsor@portia.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.*
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.004231.20609@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 90 00:42:31 GMT
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In article <70500036@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>By the way, how do you change certain objects with ResEdit 1.2?  It no
>longer lets you edit files which are "In use by another application".
>So, for instance, I can't think of a way to edit the desktop file with
>this version of ResEdit.  I don't like this restriction and consider
>it to be a bug.  Is there a workaround?

The simple workaround is to simply duplicate the file and edit the copy.
You can then trash the original and replace it with the edited copy.

The other workaround is to operate in finder (as opposed to MultiFinder)
mode.  This should allow you to edit everything except the application
you're running at the time (ie resedit).

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