[net.micro.mac] Two Finder oddities

vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) (09/24/85)

Close scrutiny of the Finder (4.1) has revealed two oddities I've
never seen mentioned.

First, insert some trashable disk in either drive.  Erase it by 
choosing "erase" from the menu.  After it's erased, double-click
the disk icon.  At the top of the disk window, it will say
"5K used, 395K available" or words to that effect.  Eject the
disk by choosing "eject" from the menu.  At the top of the disk
window, it will say "1K used, 399K available."  Hmm.

The other peculiarity is a bit harder to contrive.  Take a disk 
with some non-generic documents on it (MacPaint documents, say,
but not MacPaint itself).  Mount it with command-option so that
the special icons are lost and the documents appear with the
generic icon.  Play with the windows so that the window with 
MacPaint documents is partly obscured.  In fact, arrange it so
that some of the individual document icons are partly obscured.
Now, insert a disk with MacPaint on it.  The document icons
from the other disk don't appear to change.  But if you drag
away the window that partly covered them, you'll see that the
covered parts changed!  You now have evanescent hybrid icons.
Anything you do that redraws the window will cause them to be
drawn correctly.

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Ephraim Vishniac
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paul@greipa.UUCP (Paul A. Vixie) (09/25/85)

When I copy a folderful of files from one disk to another, the last file
copied is left "locked" (little X in the lock-box of "Get Info").  Thus
copy-to-another-disk-and-erase-them operations are a bit muddled: you
have to throw each file away individually to find the locked one.
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	Paul Vixie
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