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From: jeffh@ns.uoregon.edu (Jeff Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Desktop files
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.004857.2084@ns.uoregon.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 00:48:57 GMT
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I would like to know the purpose of the Desktop DB and Desktop DF files.  
They reside on both my 6.0.5 and 7.0b1 hard disks.   The DB file is 30k in 
size with the DF file being about 195k, The main desktop file is 64.5k.  
Are these some kind of directory backup for trashed main desktop files?  
If I remove them the system seems to work OK but they reappear later on.  
Any help will be appreciated.

Jeff Hite  
Service Manager
Computing Center,  U of Oregon
Phone: 503.346.4403
Internet: jeffh@ns.uoregon.edu
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