Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!lll-lcc!pyramid!batcomputer!chow From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Finder rebuilding of desktop. Message-ID: <1398@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 18:49:27 EDT Article-I.D.: batcompu.1398 Posted: Mon Jun 15 18:49:27 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 06:11:46 EDT Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 27 Keywords: desktop, icons, get-info Summary: maybe we should add "clean up desktop" to the finder 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 while returning to the finder. 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? I understand that there are cases when you might have to rebuild the desktop from scratch and throw out all the get-info comments. Perhaps we could get an "Clean up desktop" entry on the "Special" menu to remove unneeded icons and leave rebuilding the desktop at . What do you think? Christopher Chow /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.253.35) | | Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|ihnp4|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | | Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | | Phone: 1-415-643-2953, USPS: 2299 Piedmount Av, Berkeley CA 94720 | | Delphi: chow2 PAN: chow | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/