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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Good Stuff & Bad Stuff about System 7
Message-ID: <12151@claris.com>
Date: 25 May 91 16:17:51 GMT
References: <1991May21.035502.10050@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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>   I've
> also seen the blobish watch cursor occasionally...just seems to happen at
> random times...(I assume that some resource is being purged prematurely
> to make space for something else).
...
> On problem I do seem to have is random losing of one or two icons.  I mean one
> time they're there...the next they're not.  Even if I rebuild the desktop they
> don't reappear.  But later on...they come back.  I've seen this happen on
> a SE and a Mac II

You stated elsewhere that you had been running 7.0b4.  You can correct the
random cursor nastiness and disappearing icons by running the new Disk First
Aid against your hard disk.  There was a problem in some of the earlier
betas that could produce the effects you've seen as a side-effect.

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