tletski@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (03/20/91)
What's the easiest way to hang a Mac? Drag the icon of a disk that has been ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk! Sounds like a dumb thing to do, but around here Mac's are community property and as a result this happens VERY often. Mostly this happens when novices are careful, but I thought the Mac was supposed to be friendly to novices. Oh well, does System 7 address this issue at all? Paul Tlestki Highland Hts., Ohio
rbasow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (03/20/91)
justIn article <3845.27e5efa2@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, tletski@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: > What's the easiest way to hang a Mac? Drag the icon of a disk that has been > ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk! Sounds like a dumb thing to > do, but around here Mac's are community property and as a result this happens > VERY often. Mostly this happens when novices are careful, but I thought the > Mac was supposed to be friendly to novices. Oh well, does System 7 address > this issue at all? > > Paul Tlestki > Highland Hts., Ohio Just hit command-period a couple of times and the disk will be removed from the desktop.
hjelmflt@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Eric Hjelmfelt) (03/20/91)
In article <3845.27e5efa2@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> tletski@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: >What's the easiest way to hang a Mac? Drag the icon of a disk that has been >ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk! > >Paul Tlestki There is available an easy solution: press Command-period and it will cancel that activity and give you control of the machine back. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Hjelmfelt | disclaimer: What? They wouldn't let hjelmflt@ | me speak for the University even symcom.math.uiuc.edu | if I were to pay them! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
irwin@udny.uchicago.edu (Mark Irwin) (03/20/91)
In article <3845.27e5efa2@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> tletski@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: >What's the easiest way to hang a Mac? Drag the icon of a disk that has been >ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk! Sounds like a dumb thing to >do, but around here Mac's are community property and as a result this happens >VERY often. Mostly this happens when novices are careful, but I thought the >Mac was supposed to be friendly to novices. Oh well, does System 7 address >this issue at all? > >Paul Tlestki >Highland Hts., Ohio Actually this can usually be easily solved. Just type command-period (you may have to try it a couple of times) and the offending dialog box will disappear. I don't know if this is in the manuals or not. I would guess that it isn't. Mark Mark Irwin Dept of Statistics, Univ of Chicago irwin@galton.uchicago.edu mark@stat.ubc.ca
n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) (03/20/91)
I seem to remember that holding the option key down while dragging
a disk to the trash seemed to help. The option key and finder provide
some handy shortcuts and ways to ignore messages/errors.
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+----------------------+--------------------------+mab@ecmwf.co.uk (Baudouin Raoult) (03/22/91)
In article <3845.27e5efa2@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, tletski@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: > What's the easiest way to hang a Mac? Drag the icon of a disk that has been > ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk! Sounds like a dumb thing to > do, but around here Mac's are community property and as a result this happens > VERY often. Mostly this happens when novices are careful, but I thought the > Mac was supposed to be friendly to novices. Oh well, does System 7 address > this issue at all? > > Paul Tlestki > Highland Hts., Ohio Just type command-dot when the finder ask you for the ejected disk. -- --------------------------------------------------- Baudouin Raoult. European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast Reading, UK ---------------------------------------------------
djm@pro-odyssey.cts.com (David McDowell) (03/23/91)
In-Reply-To: message from tletski@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Just press command-.(period). It'll forget it wanted the old disk! ---- ProLine: djm@pro-odyssey Internet: djm@pro-odyssey.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-odyssey!djm ARPA: crash!pro-odyssey!djm@nosc.mil
peacock@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (04/01/91)
In response to the statements: >What's the easiest way to hang a Mac? Drag the icon of a disk that has been >ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk! Sounds like a dumb thing to >do, but around here Mac's are community property and as a result this happens >VERY often. Mostly this happens when novices are careful, but I thought the >Mac was supposed to be friendly to novices. Oh well, does System 7 address >this issue at all? A simple solution will be to press command-period. Sometimes you might have to hit that several times. Then the system will not ask you to insert back the disk. -David Wu
ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) (04/05/91)
In article <16073:Apr100:56:1691@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> peacock@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (kenneth peacock) writes: > >In response to the statements: >>What's the easiest way to hang a Mac? Drag the icon of a disk that has been >>ejected into the trash and ... not have the disk! [discussion of this problem and solution (cmd-.) deleted] You know, since the very beginning I've felt this was a problem Apple has failed to address. I understand the logic of "Eject" leaving the disk icon on the desktop for copies on single drive machines, but I don't understand why there isn't another menu command to "Forget" the disk. This seems like a serious flaw in what is (generally) a very consistent desktop metaphor. Try explaining to a (nervous) new user that it's ok to drag an entire disk into the trash, but not ok to drag a file or folder! Even more fun, try to explain this to your 9-year-old-daughter ("to get your disk back out, drag it into the trash, but NEVER drag your folder to the trash" :-). At work recently a new user was perusing a big box of PD software from the user group library, copying what she wanted from each disk and then ejecting it. After she left I looked at the mac and almost the ENTIRE SCREEN was filled with "dimmed" disk icons of the ejected disks! |||| Boyd Ostroff / Tech Director / SUNY Oswego Dept of Theatre / 315-341-2987 |||| SysAdm at cboard.UUCP / Serving the Performing Arts / 315-947-6414/8N1 |||| ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu / cboard!ostroff@natasha.oswego.edu
pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby) (04/07/91)
> At work recently a new user was perusing a big box of PD software > from the user group library, copying what she wanted from each disk > and then ejecting it. After she left I looked at the mac and almost > the ENTIRE SCREEN was filled with "dimmed" disk icons of the ejected > disks! Even more fun is making several dozen copies of a disk (say for a workshop) such that all disks have the same name. If you do this with the same kind of approach your user followed, you end up with 20-some disk icons, all with the same name. Imagine my joy when the Finder suddenly asked me to insert the disk named "workshop"...and I had to figure out which of the 20+ copies of 'workshop' it wanted! Ack! INET: pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org -OR- pejacoby@3m.com