al1f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andy A. Lee) (09/30/89)
Hello,
Can someone please tell me what are these files: DESKTOP DB and
DESKTOP DF? I found them on the top directory of my hard drive.
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+----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) (10/01/89)
al1f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andy A. Lee) writes: > Can someone please tell me what are these files: DESKTOP DB and >DESKTOP DF? I found them on the top directory of my hard drive. I believe those are files used by Apple's "Desktop Manager" init. It is an init which speeds up the filing and acessing of icon's by the finder. It was originally written for use on the AppleShare file servers. But people found out that it speeds things up quite a bit on larger volumes and have started using it for local drives as well. It not offically recommended for use on local drives by Apple. But I've heard of many people who swear by it {or at it :-) } and are quite happy running their system off of it. Hope all this helps. -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|///////////////////////////////////////// David M. O'Rourke____________________|_____________dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu | God doesn't know, he would have never designed it like that in the first | |_ place. ____________________________________________________________________|
ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) (10/03/89)
the little application that was created to modify the Finder to allow
the desktop manager to work properly "DM-Fix" ( allowed the finder to
unmount volumes which the DM does not allow) it works fine with Finder
6.0.2 and 6.0.3, but now with 6.0.4, the Finder has changed..if the
author of DM_fix is out there, he may want to update it if possible..
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