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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.091326.7784@panix.uucp>
Date: 2 Nov 90 09:13:26 GMT
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mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu writes:
>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?
>  I can't say that this happens 100% of the time.  (When everything works
>the way it's supposed to, one tends not to notice how everything is set up.)
>But I have noticed this occurance.  However, if you open up the folder
>containing the application, then double click the document, it will launch
>correctly.

The first assertion is _definitely_ not correct. I have just as definitely
seen this happen, infrequently, and it can just as easily happen in the
_same_ partition.

For example, on my hard disk with 2 MacOS partitions, I've got Hypercard
buried deep away in the second partition, and my rolodex in the first
partition. I know for a fact that I don't have HyperCard in the first
partition, since if I unmount the second partition I can't use HC. But I have
no trouble running my rolodex with a dbl-click.

In general, I don't see this more than once every few month, on a collection
of over thirty Macs that run DTM.

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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