Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!derosa
From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Are Multiple Desktops Bad?
Message-ID: <4489@manta.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 15:23:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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I have noticed that the use of TOPS in our
network has caused the appearance of multiple
desktop files on user's Macs.  These appear
as invisible files within various directories.

This occurs when a user mounts a portion of
a distant workstations file structure.  To 
do this TOPS will build a desktop in whatever
folder (directory) is being mounted.  This is
why read only directories cannot be mounted
and will return a TOPS error message.

MY QUESTION: Are multiple desktop files a 
bad thing?  Which file would get updated when 
a file is created/moved/deleted?  All of
them?  Can this cause file corruption?
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