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From: bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why do Suitcase II & On Cue forget all?
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Date: 11 Mar 91 09:22:30 GMT
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Here's a tip for forcing Suitcase to remember pathnames that hopefully might
help someone.  On our Appleshare network, many Macs used the same suitcase
on the server, with "Shared Suitcase" checked in Suitcase II.  The problem
was that if a volume is not present when Suitcase looks for it at boot,
Suitcase "forgets" the suitcase forever.  This happened very frequently when
people would click "Cancel" on Appleshare's insanely-great-modal-dialog-box.
Some technical individual would then have to use Suitcase to re-open the
suitcase on the server.

The fix was for the system administrator to set up the "Suitcase" init the
way he wants it and then to use ResEdit to set the "Protected" bit on the
"SCfl" resource in the Suitcase II init.  This resource (there's only one
SCfl) contains all the pathnames and so when the user clicks "Cancel",
it tries to modify it but fails.  No problem.

You might encounter the problem we had if you swap external hard disks a lot
and have suitcases open on various volumes that might or might not be
connected at any given time.

I can't imagine, however, that this hack/fix would work for the directory ID
problem being discussed.

bill