Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!yale!umich!fog!brian From: brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us (Brian S. Schang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 6.0.7 Idiosyncrasy ? Message-ID: <1990Nov16.052348.184@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us> Date: 16 Nov 90 05:23:48 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: Fog, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 20 From article , by draphsor@elaine0.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson): > 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?) If you type a Command-. (command-period) repeatedly, the alert will finally go away and allow one to procede. I'm not sure if this has any side effects, but I have never had problems, and I can't picture any side effects unless you *wanted* the Desktop to be updated or something like that. -- Brian S. Schang N8FOG brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us 46131 Academy Drive schang@caen.engin.umich.edu Plymouth, MI 48170-3519