STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (10/08/87)
I continue to have frequent file copying problems with the Finder on the GS System Disk 3.1. The following is a typical example: I booted up the System Disk and went into the Finder. I initialized my ramdisk (800K) and tried to copy the entire system disk to the ramdisk by dragging the System Disk into the ramdisk. (In this particular instance, I held down the option key and chose the Add Contents option, but similar problems occurred when I used other options.) After quite a while of copying, the message "I/O error has occurred while using the disk "ram5." Can't complet e this operation." came on the screen. Two folders had been put into ram5, although not completely. I dragged the folders into the trash, but when I tried to empty the trash I got a message "System Error! Can't complete this operation." with a #8050 in the lower left hand corner of the dialog box. I tried restarting the Finder (from itself) by double clicking it and then was able to successfully delete the folder. If I try to copy one file at a time, things usually work fine, but these problems crop up when I try to copy folders or whole disks. --------------------- ARPA: stein%uconnvm.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu Alan H. Stein BITNET: STEIN@UCONNVM Department of Mathematics UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN University of Connecticut
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (10/10/87)
I haven't (yet) encountered problems with the Finder, but something people need to be aware of is that, unlike the previous ProDOS-8 based DeskTop, moving an icon accomplishes a MOVE, not a COPY, of the file. There is a menu option for producing copies, although it seems to make the copy (with a new name) in the original folder.
mdavis@pro-sol.cts.COM (Morgan Davis) (10/15/87)
> moving an icon accomplishes a MOVE, not a COPY
True -- as long as you're talking about a move on the same filesystem. If you
slide an icon to your RAM5 volume, it does a COPY.
FYI: You IIGS developers should know about the new feature of the ProDOS 16
RENAME command. It can be used to move a file link from one directory on the
filesystem to another. In ECP-16 the syntax is:
:rename /volume/file /volume/subdir/subdir/file
This moves the file by moving only it's index pointers (no data is moved).
The effect is that you can move a 300 block file across your disk to some
other area in about a second or less.