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From: darin@tmq.UUCP (Darin Adler)
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Subject: Re: Re: Help with DA's requested
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 14:58:50 EST
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> >> Calendar, insect, and journal cannot be extracted from System
> >> successfully using the DAM - when extracting them, they get
> >> initiated as though I had selected them from the apple menu,
> >> and DAM reports an error.
> > I have noticed the same problem.  While I don't know why it happens ...
> In my experience, this happens when the file in which you are trying to
> save the accessory has exactly the same name as the desk accessory itself.
> I generally suffix the initials "DA" to the filename, e.g., "Calendar DA",
> when saving it; the problem then does not occur.

This problem is due to the fact that a desk accessory is opened with the
same Open call that files are opened with.  If a desk accessory exists with
a given name, a file of that name cannot be opened.  The solution is to prefix
all desk accessory names with a null character (ASCII 0).  This is done
automatically by the rename feature in the Desk Accessory Mover (at least in
version 4.0).  So the SOLUTION is to rename the desk accessory before doing
anything else with it.  Rename it to the same name it had, and the Desk
Accessory Mover will add the null character.  (BTW, you should not have this
problem with an accessory that was named correctly to start with, e.g. the
Apple standard desk accessories.

Darin Adler
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