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From: phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Multiple drive access for no reason!
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.111523.7601@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Dec 90 11:15:23 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.004506.7473@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
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In article <1990Dec4.004506.7473@umiami.ir.miami.edu>, gross@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Mondo) writes:
> Maybe someone could possibly explain this...
> 
> Why is it when I want to move something out of the active system folder
> (either into another folder, onto the desktop, or into the trash), my
> Mac makes access to every drive I have connected?
> 

Does the file that you're moving have a generic icon?  If you open a folder
that contains a file that doesn't have an icon of it's own - and just has the
standard application or document icon, then a search is made of all on-line
volumes to see if the icon is in their desktop files.   The answer is to
arrange to get a suitable icon for the file into the desktop file of your
system volume - then the finder won't go on it's long trek...

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