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From: malis@BBNCCS.ARPA (Andrew Malis)
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Subject: How to clean up an HD20 desktop
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 14:36:25 EST
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I should have mentioned in my previous message to info-mac that I
had tried Purgeicons unsuccessfully.  I think it only works on
MFS volumes.

Dave Platt (Dave-Platt%LADC@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA) mentioned
that he had seen an Apple tech memo on the subject.  Sure enough,
I found tech memo 29, which discusses the desktop file resources.
The Get Info comments are kept as FCMT resources, one comment per
resource.  Each resource number is a hash of the object's name
(of course, this can lead to collisions, where several files
inadvertently share the same comment).

I used ResEdit to copy the FCMT resources to a new file (they
were only 4K in size), rebuilt the desktop (by holding down
option and command after exiting ResEdit), and then used ResEdit
again to paste them back in.  It worked great, and my desktop
file went from 420K to 51K.

Andy