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From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544)
Subject: Re: Changing HD ICON / What about Disks?
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.142705.1709@swbatl.sbc.com>
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Organization: Southwestern Bell Advanced Technology Laboratory
References: <1991Apr8.044814.10844@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr8.051959.18050@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Apr8.114016.3863@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 14:27:05 GMT

In article <1991Apr8.114016.3863@agate.berkeley.edu> dburr@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) writes:
>From page 26 of _Zen_and_the_Art_of_Resource_Editing_, (c)1990 BMUG,
>ed. Derrick Schneider:
>
>"...however, one of these is a lie.  Many people want to edit the way a disk
>will look when it is inserted in the drive, so they edit the floppy disk they
>see in the Finder.  However, this is to no avail.  The icon for an inserted
>floppy disk is built into the ROMS of your Macintosh.  This disk is actually
>used very seldomly.  Well, it was worth the shot anyways."
>
>I have tried to change the disk icon as mentioned above, and it didn't
>work.  The Finder used the disk icon in memory.
>
>Now that I think about it, actually, the system file icon IS editable.
>My mistake.
>
>However, I still have yet to find the location of the "drawn Mac" used in
>the Welcome to Macintosh screen.  It certainly isn't in MY system file.
>
>What kind of mac do you have anyway?  Perhaps they aren't in your version
>of the ROM.

RE: Floppy Icons     

You can use Facade to change their looks based upon their volume name.

I can't remember if it changes the generic volume look.

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