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From: lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Virus Detective
Message-ID: <10714@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 16:39:33 GMT
References: <10603@bcsaic.UUCP} <1067@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum)
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Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <1067@esquire.UUCP} sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
}In article <10603@bcsaic.UUCP> lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum) writes:
}>I downloaded Virus Detective 2.1.1 yesterday and had the following 
}>unpleasant experience:
}>
}>I decided to remove VD from my system and use Suitcase to handle it
}>instead.  So I first removed VD (under Multifinder).
}
}Never remove any DA from the System under Multifinder.  It seems very
}easy to trash the System file this way, and this sounds like what
}happened to you.
}
}It's always safest to reboot under UniFinder first.  I run Virus
}Detective from a Suitcase file with no problems, so it *is* compatible
}with Suitcase.
}
}Here's a paragraph from the well-written manual on Suitcase explaining
}how to move DAs out of the System file and into a Suitcase file:
}
}    If Multifinder is on, choose Set Startup from the destop's Special
}    menu, press the "Finder" radio button, click OK, and restart the
}    Macintosh.  Open Font/DA Mover and click the Desk Accessory radio
}    button.  [ then copy the files out, click Remove and quit. ]  [ p. 23]

I know how to startup under the finder.  I prefer to just hold down the command
key, so that I don't have to reset the startup default.

The warning that appears when you remove a DA under Multifinder does NOT suggest
anything drastic.

Anyway, that does not explain why the problem recurred after I re-installed the
System.

I never said that it is incompatible with Suitcase.  I said that after things got
fouled up, Suitcase would not load.

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Larry Baum
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