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From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder loses ICN#s
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Date: 17 Jan 91 22:55:54 GMT
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In <khaw.664002978@parcplace> I said:

>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?

[what I tried, my config., etc., omitted].

Stanton Loh at Cornell had the answer: the copy of the file that was on
the floppy didn't have its bundle bit set. If the bundle bit is set
*BEFORE* it's copied to the hard disk, then the copy gets the correct
icon.

I'd already tried: rebuilding the desktop, making sure that the
application that the file belonged to was already on the hard disk,
setting the bundle bit on the COPIED file on the hard disk, copying the
ICN# for the file into the hard disk's invisible desktop file. None of
those had any effect.
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Mike Khaw
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