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From: krk@ihnet.UUCP (k. kinnear)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Two simple (?) requests
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 09:59:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 09:59:23 1985
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> 
> The scrapbook ALWAYS looks on the system disk for the scrapbook file.
> The problem is that when you launch an application from the finder, the disk
> with the application is made the system disk!  This definitely causes the
> problems you are having with the scrapbook (and the clipboard).  The best way
> I've found to work around this is to remove the system files from the
> application disk.  That way, the system disk stays the same, regardless of
> which disk the application is on.
> 

It's true that the system disk would stay the same, but the scrapbook seems to
look on the disk where the current application is.  If the application is the
finder, then this disk is the startup disk.  But if the application is on the
non-system disk the scrapbook looks there.  This habit of the scrapbook can
be annoying.

For example, MacPaint is on my startup disk and MacWrite is on the other disk.
1.) I create a picture in MacPaint.
2.) I cut and paste the picture into the scrapbook.
3.) I quit MacPaint.  I cut and paste something else so the picture is no
    longer on the clipboard.
4.) I start MacWrite on the other disk.
5.) I select Scrapbook on the Apple menu and presto! no such picture.

Kevin Kinnear
AT&T Bell Labs
Naperville IL
(312) 979-6502