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From: chuq@plaid.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder rebuilding of desktop.
Message-ID: <21195@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 12:36:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 12:36:51 1987
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: Fictional Reality, uLtd
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Keywords: desktop, icons, get-info

>I try out and throw out alot of public domain/shareware stuff on my hard
>disk.  Very often these programs have their own icons, so my desktop file
>gets bloated up with unnecessary icons.  My solution to this problem is to
>periodicly rebuild the desktop from the finder by using the <cmd><opt>

>Unfortuantely, this also erases all the data I might have put in the
>get-info boxes.  My question to Apple (and other net people) is:

>	Do you think the finder ought to be modified so that you can 
>	purge icons from your desktop?

Why make the Finder do Yet Another operation?  I use DiskExpress, which does
what you want quite well, without mucking around with what you want left
alone.  Why stuff another piece of code that is rarely used into a program
people already complain about speed and complexity?  If a good third party
program is available, use it.

chuq

Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

Now, where did my ex-wife put my Fairy Dust?