Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!dartvax!mars!nic!news.cs.brandeis.edu!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!aland From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7 peculiarities/questions Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 06:07:38 GMT References: <393@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM> Sender: usenet@news.cs.brandeis.edu Reply-To: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Organization: As little as possible Lines: 42 dbarnhar@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM writes: >When I installed System 7, it turned about 20 or 30 or so of my applications >into pseudo-aliases. That is, they had the italicized filename, but they >were really still my applications. When I tried to launch them, it said >something to the effect that "Could not locate the program associated with >this alias, because it is not really an alias (oops!). The problem has >been corrected now. Please try again." or something like that. Then they >reverted to being a normal application and worked fine, though I had to >rebuild the desktop to get the real icons back. Anyone have any idea what >caused this? No idea what caused it, but I've had the same problem with the "logger" init I sometimes use... No idea why, and haven't concerned myself with it, 'cause it works. :) >Also I have noticed that when I get new files, like the new Gatekeeper 1.2 >for instance, I have to rebuild the desktop to get System 7 to use the color >icons, either on the desktop or in the GetInfo Box. Is there an easier (or >at least faster :) way to get these changed? Um... Only suggestion here is to copy it on a floppy first, rebuild the floppy's desktop, and see if the color icon comes up when you copy it to the hard drive... >Is there any easy way to locate all aliases on a volume without checking each >file individually? I have perused the manuals (though I admit that I have >not read them 3 times front to back yet :) and don't see any way to do this, >and it is not an obvious option in the "Find" command. Apologies if this is >in plain print somewhere in those manuals. Um... It is an obvious option in the Find command... :) Click on "More Options", drop the "names" down to "Kind" and the last box drop to "Alias", then click "Show all at once" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Who, me? Nope, I didn't say that. Must have been my evil twin Who am I? aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Where am I? Brandeis University Box 3130 Waltham, MA 02254-9110 When am I? 9-5, M-F, Rain-Shine Why am I? Whaddyawant, a philosopher? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=