Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!elaine0.stanford.edu!draphsor From: draphsor@elaine0.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 6.0.7 Idiosyncrasy ? Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 03:07:17 GMT References: <1678@gold.gvg.tek.com> Sender: news@portia.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Distribution: usa Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 31 brandonl@gold.gvg.tek.com (Brandon Lovested) writes: >I installed System 6.0.7 a couple of days ago, and have >noticed that when I eject a disk with Command-E, the disk >does eject, but the disk icon remains, though unhilited. >Periodically, the my Mac asks for that old disk back before >it will perform any other task...any totally *unrelated* >task (like calling up a DA). >What gives? This is not an idiosyncracy of 6.0.7. As far as I know, this is a standard 'feature' of all versions of the Mac OS. It allows you to copy files from one disk to another if you have only one disk drive (as the original macs did). Unfortunately, eventually the Mac OS decides that it wants to write something to the disk - usually it wants to update the desktop file. It will therefore ask you to insert the disk, which can be quite annoying - especially if the disk is no longer available. (The only way out I've found here is rebooting - anyone have any tricks to convince the OS to leave well enough alone?) The way to avoid this is to drag the disk to the trash. This not only ejects the disk, it dismounts it. The OS is forced to do all its changes to the disk before it ejects it. The icon then disappears (unless the disk is the startup volume, which can't be dismounted.) Hope this helps, and hasn't confused things any further... -- Draphsor vo'drun-Aelf draphsor@portia.stanford.edu