Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!nikhefk!keeshu
From: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HD20 Advice requested
Keywords: slloooowwwww.... zzzzz
Message-ID: <416@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 15:30:51 GMT
References: <Sep.14.02.22.53.1988.14264@paul.rutgers.edu> <929@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Reply-To: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Organization: National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands
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In article <929@oswego.Oswego.EDU> ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu.UUCP (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
#
#Fragmentation is a problem, but the size of the hidden "DeskTop" file
#is even worse.  Every time you start an application or copy it to your
#HD, its icon(s) get added to this file and they stay there -- forever,
#unless you use some kind of utility to clear them out.  

You could try to hold Option-Clover pressed while booting your HD,
it should present a dialog box with :

	"ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO REBUILD THE DESKTOP?"

or something like that. Answer yes and wait a few minutes. After that 
the DeskTop will be purged of all the unneeded icons.  It will also clean
the information you've stored in the GetInfo boxes, so you will have to
type those in again.

I hope this helps,

--Kees
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