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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Deleting Cards Unintentionally
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Date: 26 Aug 88 17:52:30 GMT
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In article <13631@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> 8hum190@violet.berkeley.edu (Elliot Wilen) writes:
>It was my great misfortune to discover that command-backspace = "Delete Card".
>I didn't realize this until I'd deleted several cards, including a unique
>control card. (No, I didn't have a backup, and let that be a lesson for me.)

Well, yes.  ALWAYS work on a copy.  But also, once you've gotten a background
more or less right, set the "Can't delete background" bit.  If you really
want to delete it later, you can always unset the bit.  This won't keep you
from losing cards, but it WILL keep you from deleting the last card of that
background, which I gather is what happened from the word "unique".

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@hanami.sun.com
	UUCP: sun!hanami!landman