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From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager
Message-ID: <10375@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 90 05:13:49 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.163628.900@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1990Oct31.220114.14952@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Oct31.223953.21937@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Oct31.223953.21937@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>I'm told, by someone I tend to believe, that if you are using the Desktop
>Manager, the Finder cannot find an application if it is on a different
>partition (or drive?) from one of its documents.
>
>Is this really true?  How do you all survive?

     If this is true, then there's something wrong with my system. :)  My
hard drive is diced up into five partitions; two of them are for applications,
and the other three for data files.  I have no trouble in double-clicking on
a data file and having the appropriate program launched from the Apps
partition.
     This *does*, however, happen if you install Desktop Manager and forget
to rebuild the desktop afterwards.  Basically, you're left with no desktop
info; the icons sometimes stay around for some reason, but the system can't
find the applications they go with.  Rebuilding the desktop usually solves
the problem.  (Even though I use DM now, I still haven't given up my old
habit of rebuilding the desktop twice a month whether it needs it or not. :) )

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