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From: cgw@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gray Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: no double clicks??
Message-ID: <950@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 88 06:01:11 GMT
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Reply-To: cgw@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gray Watson)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <966@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> sdy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Sea Lance) writes:
>I have a 512ke (upgraded from a 128 via Dr Dobbs, apple) with finder 5.5 and
>system 4.2 and an external 800k drive. The version of Word that I have used to
>fire up just fine by double clicking on the document under my old system/finder
>(f4.5, s3.1 ?? its been awhile) but now I noticed that I either have to select
>both word and the doc or just dbl-click word and open the doc. Do I have
>something set up wrong or does the newer system/finders no longer support the 
>double clicks??

Have you tried rebuliding your desktop file?

This sounds like a desktop file problem and shouldn't be blamed on WORD, the
machine or System/Finder.  The desktop file keeps track of all the
applications on the disk PLUS the ones that at some time have resided on the
disk (i.e. when you copy a file onto a disk the Finder adds the information
about it into the desktop file but when the file is deleted the desktop file
DOESN'T erase all of this data).

	One of the pieces of information the desktop keeps track of is the list
of which applicationss should be executed when you double-click on a document
of a particular type. Once in a while another file comes along with the same
type and the desktop gets confused.

	To rebuild hold the option and command (clover-leaf) keys when the
Finder starts uo.

good luck...