Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: desktop icons
Message-ID: <286@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 22:09:25 GMT
References: <2571@druhi.ATT.COM> <11540110@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <699@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <699@thorin.cs.unc.edu> steele@thorin.UUCP (Oliver Steele) writes:
>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.)

The easiest way of all is to use a tiny program called "Purge Icons" which
just chucks out all the ICN#s, FREFs and BNDLs.  Then, when you return to
the Finder, it builds what amounts to a new DeskTop file, although your
comments remain.  This is completely automated, although I'm sure it doesn't
work under Multifinder.  Also useful for having the Finder recognize the
new ICN# for a program you're fooling around with.

If there's any interest, send me mail, or if there's a lot, I'll post it.

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