harrow@exodus.DEC (Jeff Harrow, NCSE LKG1-3/F16 DTN=226-7445) (12/27/85)
Well, Chrismas has come and gone and Santa deposited a bright new Apple Hard Disk 20 next to my Mac. Well, needless to say I haven't gotten my nose out of the Mac since that morning transfering 13 Megabytes (yes, Virginia, 13!) onto the HD. I've got lots of comments about this marvel but also many questions... First and foremost, I'm experiencing REDICULOUS times both for Finder startup and for application launch. Can anybody explain this (sometimes 40-60 seconds for the FInder to put up its desktop after the trash can is displayed, and some- times the same from the time I double-cllick on an application until the expanding regtangle takes off!)? Also, some programs don't seem to work correctly with the HFS, such as the MegaMax C Editor, which only looks for files on the disk-window, not in any subsequent folder, even though its file dialog box IS the new HFS box. Anyway, enough for now... Let's start sharing info on this box to keep everyone from reinventing the wheel (by the way, many of the older low-level utilities, like Fedit, don't work correctly anymore!). And, one further question: Does anybody know what happens to all of the folders (and their names) if you cause the desktop file to be rebuilt (ie, do you lose the folder structure or the folder names)? Hope all of your Xmas's were as good as mine. Jeff