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From: ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Finder 6.0 in "Scourge of the Killer Icons"
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Date: 1 Feb 88 15:03:18 GMT
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Running Finder 6.0, System 4.2 on a Mac II, I found this catastrophic
Finder bug over the weekend:

If the icon mask (second half of the ICN# resource) for a file is
blank (all zeroes), attempting to drag the file in an icon view kills
the Finder.  Sometimes it bombs, sometimes it scrambles the screen,
sometimes it just freezes solid - no mouse, no keyboard, no debugger.

To fix the problem, use ResEdit to open the file which provides the
brain-damaged icon.  Open the ICN# resources, open the offending ICN#,
and draw a mask.  Close and save the file.

The defective ICN# is also in your desktop file, so you can either
	(a) delete the desktop file while you're in ResEdit;
	(b) edit the desktop copy of the ICN# in question in ResEdit; or
	(c) hold the command and option keys while exiting ResEdit, so that
	    the Finder will offer to rebuild the desktop.

The program in which I found the problem is Mandelbrot Microscope, a
color Mandelbrot set plotter.  Only the saved set icon has this
problem; the application icon and saved color table icons are OK.


Ephraim Vishniac					  ephraim@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214