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From: bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil)
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Subject: Trashcans (was Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!)
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Date: 30 Jan 91 21:12:15 GMT
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Actually if you watch the way the Trashcan on Macintosh works you will notice 
that it *is* associated with the disk the file happens to be on.  I'm not at 
all certain of the mechanics of this but try throwing away a file... then look
at the disk it was on, the #K available doesn't change until after you hit the
'empty trash' item or eject the disk or reboot, whatever.  Seems the file is 
just moved into the trashcan (another 'directory'?). Another interesting thing
happens when you have a Novell server serving Macintoshes, if you through away
a file on the mac server volume (but don't 'empty trash') the file is still in
the same directory if you look at it from an IBM workstation!

If you are violently opposed to multiple traschcans and you have a hard drive, 
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 :[)
--
Brian Heil                           )              University of Iowa
bheil@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu         (      College of Business Administration
bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu           )        Computing Services Organization
                      AMIGA   There is no substitute!