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From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 160Mb Drive
Summary: Desktop Manager works fine...
Message-ID: <2201@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 89 20:26:14 GMT
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In article <1693@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>><It is definitely safe. It has noticeable but minor and non-malevolent effects
>><under some infrequent conditions, in multifinder only (and these effects only
>><last until the next bootup).
>
>I was referring to the "DeskTop Manager" INIT that comes with AppleShare,
>not to the Finder's Desktop file.
>
>>Including a) the inability to unmount anything which is not a floppy disk,
>>b) a horrible slowdown (this really is a Finder bug) when you copy 100
>>LaserWriter fonts onto your HD, everyone of which has the Bundle Bit set. :-(
>
>There is a nice easy fix for the first problem. Harry Starr wrote a patcher
>for the Finder that makes it close the two desktop d* files so that removable
>media such as the Syquest 45 can be ejected. It should be available for FTP.

I posted the Desktop Manager fix to the archives at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. I
also mailed it off to the moderator of comp.binaries.mac, but never saw it
posted. It's a simple little application that patches one of the Finder's CODE
resources so that it will close the Desktop DB and Desktop DF files when you
drag a hard disk to the trash. I'm not exactly sure where the desktop manager
fix is on sumex, but if you look in /info-mac/help/all-files.txt it should
show you where. I have been using the Desktop Manager for over a year, on
both Mac Pluses and Mac II's, and the only problem I have discovered with it
is the aforementioned slowdown with copying LaserWriter fonts to your disk.
It's really nice not to have that "Updating desktop file..." message show up
for very long...

Robert

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