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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: Why do Suitcase II & On Cue forget all?
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Date: 8 Mar 91 19:18:53 GMT
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The reason Suitcase forgets its files after a rebuild of the drive,
as alluded to by another poster, is because Suitcase and other
utilities use the DirID (directory ID) of the file to locate where
it is on the disk. This is the Apple approved way of locating files.
Unfortunately, these get re-created, and therefore renumbered when
you rebuild a disk. They also fail to remain the same on certain
Appleshare-like services, like CAP. I am currently in the process
of writing a little INIT that stores the full pathnames for Suitcase
files and adjusts the DirID's in the Suitcase Startup file to work
properly (for my purposes, with CAP). If it turns out to be other
than a hack, I promise to post it for others in just this situation.

pr
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