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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Cleaning up with System 7
Message-ID: <53555@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 91 02:45:53 GMT
References: <17525@chaph.usc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <17525@chaph.usc.edu> leavens@aludra.usc.edu (Justin Leavens) writes:
>Is it just me or is the new Clean Up function completely useless?
>Clean up window does nothing if you have files set to align automatically,

??? What do you expect it to do? Aren't your icons, then, already
"cleaned up"???  

>and Option-Clean Up does some kind of organize-by-name function that spreads 
>files out over a huge area, leaving me to retrieve them all back to being at 
>least somewhere near each other.

The only time I see my files spread out after I do an Option-CleanUp
is when my icon names are very wide. In that case, the Finder spreads
the icons out so that their names don't overlap. It was probably felt
that this was an even cleaner 'Clean Up'.

Otherwise, Option-CleanUp should work much the same as it did before.
In other words, it will put as many icons as it can fit in the window
horizontally before moving down to the next line. This hasn't changed
in 7.0.

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