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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Trashcans (was Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!)
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Date: 30 Jan 91 22:05:14 GMT
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In article <4223@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil) writes:
>If you are violently opposed to multiple traschcans and you have a harddrive,
>try this, move the traschan icon onto the workbench (from sys:)and then delete
>the trashcans from all of the floppies you use.  This should do it.  (I'm not
>sure because I unfortunatly don't own a hard drive :[)

You cannot move an icon from a floppy into the trashcan on another disk in
order to delete it.  You may be able to *copy* the file into the other
trashcan directory, but there will still be a copy of it on the original
disk.

Workbench assumes that you just want to move a file into another directory
without copying when you stay within a volume.  Whenever you drag an icon
across volumes workbench assumes that you want to copy the file (since you
cannot rename across volumes).

So by deleting the trashcans off of all your disks all you would accomplish
would be to disable iconic deletes on those disks.
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