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From: markj.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Mark Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Trouble with Desktop Manager init
Keywords: Memory Manager
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Date: 18 Apr 91 19:04:26 GMT
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afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) writes:

> 
> 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?                
> |  afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu      |   Rhetorical questions.                
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You have to rebuild your desktop after putting DT manager in your
system folder.  Just restart, and hold down option-command when the 
finder loads.  You'll get a dialog box asking if you want the desktop
rebuilt.  Answer yes, and you'll find all your icons are correct, and 
the other problems with launching are solved.
Mark