Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!santra!clinet!toweri From: toweri@clinet.FI (Jukka Lindgren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: disappearing drawers Summary: possible cause? Keywords: drawers bug Message-ID: <935@clinet.FI> Date: 22 Mar 89 22:10:41 GMT References: <899@acf3.NYU.EDU> <27973@sgi.SGI.COM> Reply-To: toweri@clinet.UUCP (Jukka Lindgren) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: City Lines Oy, Helsinki, Finland Lines: 53 In article <27973@sgi.SGI.COM> scotth@harlie.SGI.COM (Scott Henry) writes: >From article <899@acf3.NYU.EDU>, by rosenblg@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary J. Rosenblum): >> >> TITLE: disappearing drawers >> >> What happened: one by one the drawers disappeared! I started >> a CLI and found that neither the "name.info" nor "name (dir)" >> were present. Directories which did not have icons were >> still present. This all happened under WorkB 1.2. > >I had something similar happen to me (I am/was running 1.3 w/FFS on my HD). >I was just lining up my directory/folder icons (so that they would be nice >and pretty), when they started all disappearing! (all but the first one >selected, that is). Being somewhat handier with the CLI/shell than with >the workbench, I started looking around. I found that all of the folders >after the first were now sub-directories!... > >> Carl >> haverl@acf9.nyu.edu >-- >--------------------- > Scott Henry >#include Some days ago, I also had similar experience. I was repositioning icons in WorkBench window, dragged the "expansion-drawer" icon to a new place, released mouse button... disk activated, and the icon disappeared! After counting to ten, or more, I started desperate search for this drawer. Using CLI-command "which" (I am running Kickstart/WB 1.3 in A1000) I found the missing dirs and files inside "utilities"-directory in a subdir "expansion". After dragging the icon back on WB-window, I tried again... With same results. After some trial-and-error testing I was rather convinced that Intuition somehow decides that I really wanted to put this icon on top of another, as to move "expansion" into "utilities". Maybe it happens when the two icons have as little as one pixel line on same position. At least it was a matter of one pixel to the left or right. I was unable to verify this, because both icons are "alternate-image" i.e. two icons merged together, and their whole size isn't visible as in ordinary icons (inverted bitplanes, when activated). Anyway, you can avoid this accident by positioning icons far enough from each other, or keeping write-protect tab open in your disk. (How do you write-protect hard disk? Is there any hardware lock?) I hope this is of some help... -toweri -- = VOICE: + 358 0 571789 || Any opinions expressed contain = = EMAIL: toweri@clinet.UUCP || * The Absolute Truth * = = or: ...!mcvax!santra!clinet!toweri || Therefore no disclaimers can be made = = SNAIL: don't bother... || (I KNEW you'd hate it !) =