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From: dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: DeskTop Manager
Message-ID: <864@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 89 00:23:33 GMT
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Reply-To: dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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In article <2201@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen) writes:
>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

I have a recent copy of the Desktop Manager, and have installed the
above fix, but I gave up on using DM because it didn't work invisibly.

When I installed it, the icons for the Hypercard stacks and SmartComm
configurations I had on my desktop were just the standard "unknown
file" icons.  It seemed like if I had a window open with the application
in it I was fine.

Obviously, I was doing something wrong, and I'm sure someone out
there can tell me what it was.

(On the good side, the fact that this solution didn't work forced me
to clean up my disk, which makes backups and desktop file updates
go faster.)

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David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
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