Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: I think we gotta Desktop Bug...! Message-ID: <12299@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 11 Jun 91 09:44:59 GMT References: <1991Jun9.122433.67@mis.mcw.edu> <1991Jun9.221209.18652@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Sally Fowler Rat Pack Lines: 31 Ok, apologies for the inflammatory subject line. But, going off recent postings here, and my own experience, I have a feeling there's something fishy with Sys7.0's Desktop management. My problem is that applications and documents occasionally lose their icons, and the documents lose their links with the applications so they cannot be launched. Two possible causes: (1) I'm running Silverlining with several partitions, so I have aliases and documents on different volumes which mount in some arbitrary order. (2) I restored the disk from a backup with an old backup program which doesn't know about aliases (although it should just restore the alias and Icon files anyway, right?). The problem seems confined to applications and documents I've aliased (into the Apple menu, for example); others seem fine. But, the original apps/docs (not the aliases) keep losing their icons fairly sporadically when I reboot. A temporary fix seems to be to select the file, Get Info, select the icon, and then COPY, PASTE and CLEAR. Right now I have a floppy containing a single application. Under 6.0.7 the icon appears. Under 7.0 it has a generic icon. And I'm lost for ideas. Yes, I've rebuilt the desktop zillions of times for all the volumes in every conceivable order... Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ <-- WEST VIEWING ROOM EAST VIEWING ROOM -->