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From: Dorman.Bullard@p4.f56.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Dorman Bullard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: More Get-Info, and the DeskTop
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Date: 3 Oct 90 12:01:43 GMT
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> From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger)
> Date: 1 Oct 90 21:14:22 GMT
> Organization: Organization?  Of course I'm not Organized!
> Message-ID: <ALAND.90Oct1171422@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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> 
> If you have multiple desktop files, you should delete them.  There are
> a variety of reasons for it to happen, from (not TOO likely) virus
> attacks, to mistakenly copying them from other disks, to a variety of
> other reasons.  The reason they don't show as being infected by
> Disinfectant is probably because they aren't.  Only the currently open
> Desktop files (one per disk) should be infected by a virus.
> --
> 
I believe this started from someone saying a "FindFile" search had revealed
multiple Desktop files.  One possibility for those files is that they got copied
onto the hard disk by someone copying and entire disk which included a Desktop
file.

I don't know whether a Desktop file buried in a folder will cause problems,
but I sure read a lot about extra System files on a hard drive creating some
chaos.  I would do a search for "System" to see if any duplicates exist, and
if so to get rid of them.

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