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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Minor Get Info complaints
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.142353.13978@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 14:23:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.165024.8929@neon.Stanford.EDU> <634@6sceng.UUCP>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <634@6sceng.UUCP> blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>In article <1991Jun4.165024.8929@neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:
>|If the original is on the desktop, Get Info reports the
>|alias as being in <diskname name>:DeskTop Folder:
>|instead of on the desktop.
>
>Although this isn't the clearest message possible, I do like that it
>tells you what disk it's on, and doesn't just say "Desktop" or something.
>Even though the file is on the desktop, it's still on some physical
>disk, and if that disk is removed or unplugged (or explodes :-)), the
>file will go away.
>Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP

Related to this discussion--if I am in the SFDialog and a move to the
Desktop and then SAVE a file, which PHYSICAL disk will it be placed on?
I am assuming that it will go onto the Startup volume.

  Paul

  (I know, I know, "TRY IT"...I'm here at work on my lowly IIfx running
  6.0.7, so I can't...)
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