Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bagate!dsinc!unix.cis.pitt.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!ralphm From: ralphm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Melton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 6.0.7 Idiosyncrasy ? Message-ID: <1990Nov16.053906.24104@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 16 Nov 90 05:39:06 GMT References: <1678@gold.gvg.tek.com> Distribution: usa Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 19 In article draphsor@elaine0.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) writes: >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?) >Draphsor vo'drun-Aelf draphsor@portia.stanford.edu Command-period. I rarely have luck with pressing it once, but two or three presses will almost always make the "please insert disk Missing" go away. Ralph -- Ralph Melton ralphm@portia.stanford.edu