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From: Timothy.Allen@dartmouth.edu (Timothy Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Finder crash
Message-ID: <1991May21.122657.6222@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 12:26:57 GMT
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In article <1991May19.210746.30908@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

> sometimes the 'size' number in the upper left corner of the windows
> doesn't update properly.  If you do a bunch of icon dragging to the trash real
> fast and then rush into something else, you lose the size or it rewrites the
> size right over the old size (giving an unreadable jumble of number).

I have also seen this once on my Mac SE.  Closing the window and then
reopening causes the info to be updated properly.  

Another problem I've encountered - sometimes, the finder won't let me
eject a floppy disk.  I choose eject disk or type command-e and the
disk spits out, but as soon as it does, I get one of those annoying
disk swap alerts asking me to insert the disk.  I tried typing
command-period, and I got a message saying that the mac couldn't work
with the disk because it wasn't physically mounted in any drive (and
then the disk icon disappeared from the desktop as it would have if I
had dismounted the disk by dragging it to the trash).  This doesn't
happen all the time, but when it does - how are you to make a floppy to
floppy copy on a one floppy drive system (without using your hard disk
as an intermediary)?  Yeah, I wish I could afford a second floppy
drive....

tim.allen@dartmouth.edu