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From: steele@thorin.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: desktop icons
Message-ID: <699@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 88 12:35:15 GMT
References: <2571@druhi.ATT.COM> <11540110@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: steele@thorin.UUCP (Oliver Steele)
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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}Is there a simple way to get the finder to recognize the new icon?  I'd 
}rather not rebuild the entire desktop just for this...

kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Ken Wallich) writes:
>The simple way is rebuilding the desktop.  Doesn't take THAT long, so
>I would recommend that as the "correct" way of doing it.

It does throw away all your comments, though.  If you're not running under
MultiFinder, you can use ResEdit to delete the BNDL for your application
from the Desktop file and clear the 'inited' flag.  Also delete the
0-resourse with the type of your application signature from the Desktop.
When you return to the Finder a new BNDL will be added.  Not guaranteed to
work in half a year; I suspect the Desktop format is in for some major
redesign.

If you want to keep your desktop clean, get rid of ICN# and FREF as well.
It's easier just to let things get cluttered and run DiskExpress every
once in a while.

If you ever need to rebuild the entire desktop without losing comments,
use ResEdit to copy all the FCMTs from Desktop to a new file; rebuild
the Desktop; and move the FCMTs back.  (If the type isn't FCMT then it's
something equally obvious.)

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