jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White) (08/11/89)
Has anyone else noticed this problem with data files using Excel 2.2? If the file is one the same disk/volume as the Excel application, the icon appears normally (note that it is slightly different than the icon for a 1.5 file). However, once you move the data file or application to another disk/volume, the data file looses it's icon and becomes that of just an ordinary document. Double clicking on it will launch Excel, but it is a little disturbing to have this happen. This has never happened on any other application ever before. Systems include a Mac Plus and IIx, running 6.0.3, although I don't think this has any influence. I'm not sure I can do much about it, but I would like to at least know that it's not only me. Jeff White University of Pennsylvania jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton) (08/11/89)
In article <13626@netnews.upenn.edu> jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White) writes: >Has anyone else noticed this problem with data files using Excel >2.2? If the [Describes how putting Excel doc on a separate disk causes doc to lose icon] >This has never happened on any other application ever before. >Systems include a Mac Plus and IIx, running 6.0.3, although I don't >think this has any influence. I'm not sure I can do much about it, >but I would like to at least know that it's not only me. I've seen this happen before with MacPaint and with Silicon Press (a label-making program by Silicon Beach). Since I've only got a vague idea how the desktop file matches icons with file types, I don't know why this happens. Anybody care to explain? -- David Walton Internet: dawyd@tartarus.UChicago.EDU U. Chicago Computer { Any opinions are my own, not those } Science Macintosh Lab { of my employers (or anybody else). }