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From: cosell@cosell.bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Why doesn't Trashcan work?
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 11:07:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 11:07:23 1987
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I just got an A2000 and I've been playing with it some and I noticed
that when I clicked on the Trashcan the >empty trash< menu item
didn't become enabled.... hmmm... so I decided to delete the
stuff brute-force, and so I did shift-select on all of the stuff
in the Trashcan (which was now visible since I had just opened it)
and did the for-real "delete" menu item.  You might have noticed the
slight flaw in the above: in addition to the stuff IN the trashcan
I had left the Trashcan, *itself*, selected.  And, sure enough,
the #@$%@# thing deleted the Trashcan!

What's wrong?  I don't think it is anything really dumb that I did, because
I'm working straight off of the WB disk (actually, a copy of it, of course)
that came with the 2000.  (although I noticed that the Trashcan on my
Extras disk had the same non-working property).

Thanks
  /Bernie\

ps, I DID do a dumb thing, though, that I don't fully understand the
ramifications of: by mistake (I was cleaning out icons I didn't want)
I deleted the .info file for my WB disk.  I didn't exactly know what
to DO about that.  How best to fix this little misstep?  tnx  /b\

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