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From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Subject: Re: System 7 desktop icon problems (bug?)
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.190435.10441@news.media.mit.edu>
Summary: System 7 beta alias conflicts
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References: <1991Jun25.145400.400@viewlogic.com> <1991Jun27.140645.624@otago.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 19:04:35 GMT

In article <1991Jun27.140645.624@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:
>In article <1991Jun25.145400.400@viewlogic.com>, peter@viewlogic.com (Peter Colby) writes:
>> 
>> 	I have discovered an interesting bug in System 7. I have a number
>> of applications on a hard disk partition (in different folders). These
>> applications all have aliases in the Apple Menu Folder of the System Folder
>> on a separate partition which is my boot partition.
>> 	I was forced to rebuild the desktop of the "applications" partition
>> and all the applications that were aliased into the Apple Menu ended up with
>> generic application icons. The icons in the Finder's Get Info window are
>> also generic.

Greetings,

  I've had the same problem.  It turns out that the alias format used by all
the pre-release system 7 versions is not compatible with the release version.
If you have aliases hanging around from a beta version, they will confuse the
Finder.  You need to delete all the aliases made with the old versions, and
replace them with new ones.

  I also found that changing the name of the partitions will screw the aliases
up, requiring them to be deleted and re-made.