Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:7558 comp.sys.mac.system:2848 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!resnick From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Finder loses ICN#s Message-ID: <1991Jan16.194741.27709@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Jan 91 19:47:41 GMT References: Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 25 khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes: >In System 6.0.5/6.0.7, why is it that sometimes when you copy a file >from a floppy to your hard disk, you end up with a "blank page" icon >(generic document icon?) for the resulting copy? Icons for files are kept track of in BNDL and FREF resources, which contain which ICN# goes with which file type. Most programs only keep the BNDL and FREF resources in the Application file itself and don't copy them into the data files (which is the right thing to do). If there is no file on the disk which contains the BNDL, FREF, and ICN# for a given file type (like if you put a Microsoft Word file on your disk without Microsoft Word itself on your disk), the icon will be the standard, blank, "I don't know what this is" icon. It's a little more involved than that, but simply, that's what's going on. pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD