steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) (04/01/89)
As long as I've used WriteNow (both 1.0 and 2.0) under some undetermined circumstances (which I think are related to being in a folder removed from the application), there is a 2 or 3 minute delay in creating a new file. The application creates a file icon named Untitled-1 which cannot be used or moved to another folder until it converts to the icon with the name of the created file. I just assumed this was normal WriteNow behavior. It doesn't always happen, but it frequently happens this way. But I just phoned T/Maker about it and their technical support person says they've never heard of this one. So I agreed to post this notice to see if anyone else has seen the same behavior. I'm running on a 5 meg Mac II with a 40 meg hard disk, system 6.0.2, multifinder, with lots of inits and cdevs. I mention this because T/Maker asked me about such matters. They'd particularly be interested to know if someone with a much simpler configuration (such as running in the finder without the inits and cdevs) has noticed the same behavior. Please send any Email to steve@violet.berkeley.edu. Thanks, Steve Goldfield P.S. about the file launching problem with WriteNow we discussed recently, I've been noticing that if I immediately try to relaunch a WriteNow file just after it refused to launch, it generally will launch. Strange...
alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (04/05/89)
The problems described lead me to guess that you are running Desktop Manager.
If so, remove it and see if that fixes things.
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Alexis Rosen
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