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From: umduddr0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brendan Duddridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Finder crash
Keywords: finder,trash,desktop
Message-ID: <1991May19.194729.12162@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 19 May 91 19:47:29 GMT
References: <53047@apple.Apple.COM> <21506@brahms.udel.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In <21506@brahms.udel.edu> weave@brahms.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:

>Well, at least I don't feel like I am going nuts now.  I have also had
>problems with trash can aliases and posted a message a few days about it.
>I just created a trash can alias, put it in the root window, and renamed it
>to trash (but with a space before and after the name). When an attempt was
>made to open the alias, the machine hung. I have been able to reproduce this
>over and over.
 
 
This may sound like a silly question, but why would you want to make an alias
of the trash can?  It's so easy to just move the icon over to the trash on the
desktop already.  Perhaps I'm missing the point.

Brendan Duddridge
umduddr0@ccu.umanitoba.ca