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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: <1991Jun10.214413.6894@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 21:44:13 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.165024.8929@neon.Stanford.EDU> <634@6sceng.UUCP> <1991Jun5.142353.13978@mmm.serc.3m.com> <13911@goofy.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <13911@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>>[me]
>>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.
>
>If you just click Desktop (or hit command-D), I think you're right.  But if
>you look carefully at the volume name in the SFDialog, you will see that it
>changes depending on what item in the list is selected.
>
>To save onto the desktop of a different volume, simply click on the desired
>volume in the scrolling list (or something from that volume that's on the
>desktop), tab to the type-in box, and click save.

Silly me; I didn't think to look at the disk name there in the SFDialog.
Of course it does work this way.  And since there will _always_ be a
disk name shown, you always save things on the desktop (or, for those
into pure semantics, into the "Desktop Folder") on THAT disk.

Thanks for the explanation.
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