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From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Finder loses ICN#s
Message-ID: <khaw.664002978@parcplace>
Date: 16 Jan 91 05:16:18 GMT
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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?

This happens regardless of whether I'm running MultiFinder or (uni)Finder,
and regardless of the CDEVs/INITs I do/don't have installed. It happens
to both an internal Quantum Pro 40 that came with the Mac and an external
DPI 44R Syquest drive.

Looking at the hard disk's Desktop file with ResEdit shows that its
ICN# resource doesn't contain the ICN# that should match the copied file,
but even adding that missing ICN# to the Desktop file doesn't fix things
(of course, I'm not enough of a Mac hacker to know what, if any,
significance the ICN# ID number has).
--
Mike Khaw
ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043
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