Rankins@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (10/14/87)
I may have come across a bug in the new System Disk 3.1 Finder.
After booting it up, I ejected the system disk and inserted a
different disk (call this disk A) I wanted to work with. After
clicking on this disk icon to open up a window for it, I realized it
wasn't the disk (disk A) I wanted to work on, so I manually ejected
disk A and put in the disk I wanted (call this disk B), without first
closing out the window for disk A. Well, when I put in disk B, it
came up labeled with the same prefix name as the one I had just
ejected (disk A). I closed out the window for disk A, and clicked on
the improperly named icon for the newly inserted disk B. The window
opened up showing me the directory for the disk A!! I then tried
closing out the window, ejecting the disk, and reinserting it.
Again, the icon had the old disk A prefix, and it gave me the
directory for the old disk A. So then I thought, maybe it still
thinks I'm working with Disk A, so I tried ejecting disk B, dragging
the closed out icon to the trash can, and reinserting disk B again.
Again, same deal as before. I then inserted an entirely different
disk (this would be disk C for anyone keeping score), and it was
named correctly and the directory was correct. Well, to make a long
story short, I finally found out (after rebooting under the old
System Disk 1.0) that the Finder had munged the directory on Disk B,
replacing it with the directory of Disk A. If when using Finder, I
close all windows before inserting another disk, I don't seem to have
any problems, but this wasn't necessary on the prior versions of the
System Disk, and doesn't seem like it should be for Finder. I don't
think it should be changing the your disk directory anyways, if you
don't. By the way, disk B was not write protected. I tried
recreating the situation with a write-protected disk, and it was not
affected. So, now I'm afraid to use the Finder with anything but
write protected disks, which kind of limits the usefulness of Finder,
don't you think?
Question is, is this a bug I've discovered, or another one of those
undocumented "features"? Has anyone else noticed this or any other
problems with Finder? I've also seen a reference in this list to a
version 3.2 of the System Disk with some bug fixes to the Finder. Is
this maybe one of the bug fixes, and is it currently available? Any
comments, questions, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for listening,
Ray
Rankins@Dockmaster.arpa
P.S. - In a related note, does anyone know how to restore the
directory on a disk so I can get at the real files that are on there?