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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Neodesk trashcan accessory
Message-ID: <6132@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 15:41:40 GMT
References: <2015@gmdzi.UUCP>
Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <2015@gmdzi.UUCP> focke@gmdzi.UUCP (Stefan Focke) writes:
>Hello,
>
>can anyone tell what this accessory is good for?
>
>Thanks
>
>    Stefan 
>

It gives you a recoverable trashcan with Neodesk 2.05 and later.  When you
delete files, you can recover them later.

You install a new trashcan icon (included in the package) by dragging the 
trashcan.acc to the desktop (they recommend removing the old trashcan icon so
you don't get confused), and whenever you delete a file, it puts it into a sort
of limbo; a trashcan.dat (or some such) hidden file is written to that disk,
and you can recover 'at any time' the file(s) in question.  Works very similar
to the Mac trashcan; note that when you "delete" the file it'll still take disk
space.  Also, if you run ICD's Cleanup or Tuneup or (I imagine) Hard Disk Sentry
on a disk that has "deleted" files, it'll muff things up.

Mike