Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!khcg0492 From: khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Holden Chang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 6.0.7 Idiosyncrasy ? Message-ID: <1990Nov16.080557.22525@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Nov 90 08:05:57 GMT References: <1678@gold.gvg.tek.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 24 Brandon Lovested asked about the vagaries of command-E (why the disk icon remains and why the computer asks for the disk to be reinserted). In article draphsor@elaine0.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) replied: >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?) Command-period sometimes works. Sometimes you have to hit command-period several times. Sometimes the computer is really stubborn and you have to reboot. -- ***************************************************************************** Kenneth Chang * khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Center for Complex Systems Research * or University of Illinois * kc@complex.ccsr.uiuc.edu *****************************************************************************