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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Desktop Manager
Message-ID: <11796@Apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 88 15:43:07 GMT
Reply-To: dan@Apple.COM.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In my previous posting about using the Desktop Manager, I forgot to say
that there are two slight problems:

	a)	Make sure you hold down CMD OPTION on the disk to
		rebuild the Desktop DB and Desktop DF files, so that
		all of your ICONs are around and files launch properly
		in the Finder.

	b)	The only real Gotcha with using the Desktop Manager is
		that the Finder will not properly close the two Desktop
		files, thus NOT allowing you to unmount a disk that
		contains these files.  If you have a single hard disk
		Mac system, this is not a problem, as you will never
		be unmounting the startup disk.  But if any other hard
		disk comes along, the Desktop Manager will create the
		two Desktop files and once they are there and open these
		files stay open until you do a shutdown.  This can be
		a minor inconvience, but doesn't seem to hurt anything.

I do not recommend the causual man in the street using the Desktop
Manager, but for the knowledgeable power user, it can really increase
performance.  Without it, updating the Desktop file on an 80MB hard disk
with 3000 files can take much longer than the actual file copy.  With
it, the Desktop gets updated in an instant.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer