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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Workbench Bug (1.3)
Message-ID: <10241.AA10241@caleb>
Date: 21 Oct 90 04:49:34 GMT
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I ran into a strange Workbench bug tonight.  I dragged an icon off my
HD window to drop it onto a floppy.  I missed the floppy icon due to
crowding, and it ended up on the Workbench background (i.e. where the
disk icons show up.)  So I dragged it again and got it copied onto the
floppy.  All right so far.  Well, I didn't quite trust the WB, so I
dragged it back into its original window.  Then I closed the window
and reopened it to make sure that the icon was in the correct place.
No icon!  So I checked the CLI and it was still in the proper directory.
What happenned to my icon?  I never snapshotted it, so it should have
been visible in its original location.  Is this a known bug?

I 'fixed' the 'problem' by copying a fresh .info file over the old one,
but why should I have had to do that?  Where did WB think the icon was?
I guess I should have looked at the .info file, but I didn't.

Although the WB has been fairly solid for quite some time, this is the
kind of thing that makes me distrust the WB.  How is the oft rumored
2.0x WB.  Is it solid?

Anybody out there know what happenned?




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                                                Jim Pritchett


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