c60a-3eb@tart3.UUCP (04/01/87)
In certain circumstances, Finder 5.4 will empty the trash on its own initiative when it really shouldn't. To see an example of this, start your Mac. Then eject the system disk and insert a data disk. Get an application file you don't want (or duplicate an existing file to make something to throw out) and drag it to the trash. You will now be prompted to insert the system disk because the Finder wants to put up the "Do you really want to remove the application xxxxxx" alert. To do this it needs the following (non-pre-loaded) resources: from the system file: warning icon from finder resource fork: alert template, corresponding DITL, STR# with message, fat trash icon. If you don't cancel from the alert, you are prompted to put the data disk back in the drive and now comes the problem: the file you put in the trash is gone from the disk like it should be but it isn't in the trash! The Finder is not only putting the application in the trash, but it is emptying the trash as well. My work-around to this problem is to mark all of the above mentioned resources as requiring pre-load with ResEdit (I don't remember their ID's). This would be a good thing to fix in System 4.1/Finder 5.5. --- Bob Heiney --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Heiney c60a-3eb@lemon.Berkeley.Edu c60b-hd@buddy.Berkeley.Edu "To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods."(Robert A. Heinlein) ---------------------------------------------------------------------