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Subject: Re:  Rebooting options; what's kept around?
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 11:56:23 EDT
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From: olson@harvard.ARPA (Eric Olson)
The Mac has two directories: one collected together in a desktop file, and
one distibuted on the diskette, in each file's header.  If the desktop
file gets destroyed somehow (which is catastrophic on most machines), the
Mac MAY sense this and rebuild.  Folders are lost because they are stored
only in the directory in the desktop file.  If the Mac doesn't sense it,
system errors may occur subsequently and may sometimes be cured by the
command-option reset, which forces rebuilding the desktop directory from
the distributed directory.  None of this is kept in memory when the Mac
is turned off; it is carefully kept in the directory.

The Mac does remember the bell volume across powerups, as well as "most
control panel settings (manual p. 97).

-Eric.