chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (01/20/88)
> Well, what happens? When the dialog box disappears, the >finder neatly deletes not only the duplicate file, but the ORIGINAL file >itself. HARDLY friendly! The desktop appears to be purged of the file's >information, of course. This probably isn't the Finder's problem, but I've found that Doug Clapp's Word Tools causes problems under System Release 5.0, to the point where I pulled it off my hard disks. It creates a "Word Tools Preferences" file in the System Folder, as is normal these days. The fun starts when you try to do something like click on or move that file. The icon freaks out, followed shortly by the finder (and the system) going belly up with an ID=2. This is even more fun since you need to click on or move the file to delete it with the finder (talk about time bombs). I finally zapped it with Disktop, but after doing full backups, when I went to clean up with disk with DiskExpress it told me the directory structure was damaged. I can only assume (since this is the first time I've seen THAT message) that it was related to word tools. Hopefully, this'll be fixed in the next release of Word Tools, but I don't recommend running it under the current release of software. Anyone have any idea what they could have broken? chuq Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ What do you mean 'You don't really want to hurt her?' I'm a Super-Villain! That's my Schtick!