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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hang due to floppy copy -- update
Summary: DeskTop Manager...
Message-ID: <875@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 17 Mar 89 21:48:46 GMT
References: <581@salgado.stan.UUCP>
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
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< Last night, I was downloading some new programs, and as the finder was
< rebuilding the desktop, it hung again.  I rebooted, and every time the
< finder started trying to rebuild the desktop (whether I told it to or
< not), it would hang.
Another one bites the dust.

The Desktop file is a resource file. If this gets full, you get rather
spectacular crashes. (Apple forgot to do some basic tests here. :-( :-( )

The Fix: Get the Desktop Manager INIT from someone. It is supplied on
AppleShare server installer floppies. Place into your System folder,
reboot, and rebuild the Desktop.
No more problems, except that you can't drag hard disks to the trash any more.

Disclaimer: Apple specifically warns against doing the above.
I am doing the above for more than a year now and have never had a single
problem.

PS: You might want to use something like Disktop and copy a Desktop file from a
freshly initialized floppy to you HD. This will a) clean out the old
damaged Desktop file and b) prevent the Finder from automatically
rebuilding the desktop if you should boot without the Desktop Manager.

This posting, as well as the problem it adresses, will be repeated next
month at the latest. Big HDs get more common. Apple: Please give us
an approved now. Waiting for System 7.0 is no fun... :-)
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