Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!keith
From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: About the Finder... (was Re: System 7.0 screwyness/Neat Finder feature)
Keywords: Option, Command, About Finder, Mounatains, smiley, cursor
Message-ID: <53347@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 May 91 02:43:28 GMT
References: <1991May24.173144.17255@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <53329@apple.Apple.COM> <1991May25.163954.18774@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991May25.163954.18774@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) writes:
>In article <53329@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>
>>[I don't get]
>>the extra goodies either.
>
>I guess something went terribly wrong with those extra goodies...
>Maybe they just get installed by chance?
>I've installed a "complete" system on my fx, and they are not there.
>I've also installed a "minimal every mac" system on a cartridge, and they
>are there. (I don't get colour icons on that however).
>
>One more dirty trick? ;-)
>
>And if Keith doesn't know, then who does?


This sounded like too much of a challenge to pass up.  :-)

In case you, the reader, haven't been following this thread, the "extra
goodies" are those things you get when you hold down the Option or
Command-Option keys when bringing up "About Finder".  Specifically, you
should get the Paul Mercer Happy Face for an icon and a scrolling list
of credits along the bottom of the dialog box.  Well, I and a few
others weren't getting those goodies, and I wanted to know why.

The short answer of the story (which took about 4 hours because of a
wrong turn I made) is that the creation date of your "Desktop Folder"
needs to be after 5/13/91, 12:00AM. I used MPW to verify that my
Desktop folder had been created before then, and to set it to 5/14/91.
If you don't have MPW, but know how to use a disk editor, set the
creation date to $A4538781 or greater.

Or, you could reboot under System 6.0.x, throw away the Desktop folder,
and reboot under System 7.0.

BTW: has anyone seen CODE(6) from my Finder? I seem to be missing it...

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