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From: afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Trouble with Desktop Manager init
Summary: Documents on different volumes become anonymous.
Keywords: Memory Manager
Message-ID: <13493@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 91 00:50:49 GMT
References: <13491@ur-cc.UUCP>
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY
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I posted a request a few days ago for the location of the Desktop Manager
init.  Thanks to everyone who wrote and posted locations where I could find
it (the easiest being /pub/dts/mac/goodies/oscar.hqx on apple.com).

I downloaded it and installed it and rebooted.  I peeked at the little
Desktop DF and Desktop DB files with DiskTop, and everything seemed to be
swell.

That was until I started looking around on my hard disk, which is
partitioned into three hard partitions with Silverlining.  What I noticed is
that I had lost almost all of my document icons.  Specifically, if a document
resides on a different partition than it's creator program, the Desktop
Manager desktop doesn't recognize it's creator, and lists it as a generic
document.  Documents which are on the same partition as their creator
applications are fine.  The documents still have their type and creator codes
(checked with DiskTop), but the DM desktop doesn't know what to make of them.

I removed the Desktop Manager init, rebooted, and everything is back to
normal with the ordinary Desktop (i.e. slow and annoying, but with all the
proper document types).

Any ideas about what the problem might be?

Alan
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|  Alan R Fry                       |   You know what I hate?                 |
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