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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WriteNow 2.0 Problem finding Application
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Date: 13 Feb 89 16:59:59 GMT
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In article <1798@csadfa.oz> rap@csadfa.oz (Robert Pearson) writes:
#>From article <20018@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield):
#>> I'm not sure whether this is a problem with the System (6.0.2 on
#>> my Mac II) or with WriteNow itself.
#>> 
#>> 
#>> Has anyone else had this experience and is there a solution?
#>> 
#>> Steve Goldfield
#>
#>	I suspect that there may be a problem with some of the
#>desktop files. I have had similar experiances undermultifinder
#>but not if I use finder alone.
#>	I think that adding removing applications under multifinder
#>could be causing the problem.
#>	 I would suggest rebuilding the desktop under Finder
#>and under Multifinder, perhaps with the Desktop manager removed
#>At the first rebuild.
#>  Robert Pearson
#>rap@csadfa.oz
#>D

I phoned T/Maker about this; they suggested I build my desktop,
which I did under Multifinder. I still have the problem. I'll
try doing it also under Finder. The strange thing is that I only
see it for WriteNow 2.0 files and that it is intermittent.
Sometimes a given file will launch and then later it won't.

(later than above) I found that a file which would not launch
under Multifinder did so under Finder. I rebuilt the desktop as
suggested above under Finder. Now the file does launch under
Multifinder, at least for now.

This experience reminds me of going to a dark funhouse at a
bazaar when I was a kid and sticking my hand into a bucket, not
knowing what was inside. Does anyone really understand
Multifinder and why it does what it does (or doesn't do what it
doesn't do?)? Incidentally, I couldn't find anything about
rebuiding the desktop in my Mac II manual. Is it documented
anywhere accessible?

Steve Goldfield