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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: AppleShare Bug ?
Keywords: WDEF AppleShare
Message-ID: <47516@improper.coherent.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 18:08:10 GMT
References: <20621602MR@MSU> <47252@improper.coherent.com> <1924@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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In article <1924@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek) writes:

> Mark may be infected with WDEF, but I have GateKeeper Aid, Vaccine (I know,
> no good for WDEF), and (suspecting WDEF myself) have scanned both my disk
> AND the server's disk using Disinfectant 1.6.  Nothing detected, and yet
> the problem still occurs.  As noted in my previous post, this ONLY occurs on
> System folders and a folder on my hard drive named "Binaries" (Hmmm.... I
> haven't tried changing the name to see if THAT makes any difference.....).
> 
> If anyone figures this out, regardless of the cause, please post to this
> group or send e-mail to me.

This tends to happen if you have a window which is "View by [any non-
icon organization]".  I'm fairly sure that the Finder is querying the
icon/owner database on the server whenever it encounters a file
whose owner-code is not represented in the local disk's Desktop file...
so that it can display the file as being a "Snork document" rather than
simply a "document".

The delay, and network activity seem to be greatly reduced if you display
the window using an icon or small-icon view.  I'm not sure why...
perhaps the Finder is capable of cacheing the icons, but not the names
of the owning applications.
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