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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rebuilding desktop question.
Message-ID: <21573@bbn.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 88 14:44:24 GMT
References: <1931@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <1931@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> buzz@phoenix (Mahboud Zabetian) writes:
:I though rebuilding the desktop cleared all the Get Info comments.  How come it
:doesn't happen to me? (SE w/ 20M, MF and 1 Meg)

With the latest Finder (6.0) applications get their Get Info comments
from a special resource all applications have (the one which
identifies their 'creator' - I forget the right name for it).  This is
often called the version string, and it doesn't go away when you
rebuild the desktop (it isn't in the desktop).  Non-applications
("documents") don't have this and will lose their comments.  I don't
know what happens with an application which also has a desktop (FCMT)
comment.

	/JBL

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