Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!steele
From: steele@thorin.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How to run clean under Multifinder (!)
Summary: easier way to rebuild desktop
Keywords: it's fun now
Message-ID: <686@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 88 14:31:27 GMT
References: <6402@drutx.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: steele@thorin.UUCP (Oliver Steele)
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward) writes:
>2)  Keeping the hard disk and its desktop file clean seems to be the
>    main key to avoiding all the problems I've observed, including the
>    MacTerminal (and Word and Hypercard) crashes.
>[....]
>    To avoid this, I find the following procedure works:
>
>        a)  reboot with clover key down, which brings up non-Multi
>	    Finder, after the disk does some kind of lengthy (but not
>	    Desktop, I think; probably VTOC) rebuilding.

	b) run an application
	c) exit the application with cmd-opt pressed.  The finder
	   will request confirmation, and rebuild the desktop.

You can also boot with cmd-opt from a non-MF floppy for the same
result.

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