peter@viewlogic.com (Peter Colby) (06/25/91)
I have discovered an interesting bug in System 7. I have a number
of applications on a hard disk partition (in different folders). These
applications all have aliases in the Apple Menu Folder of the System Folder
on a separate partition which is my boot partition.
I was forced to rebuild the desktop of the "applications" partition
and all the applications that were aliased into the Apple Menu ended up with
generic application icons. The icons in the Finder's Get Info window are
also generic.
I have checked the BNDL resources for those applications and the
ICN#s are correct. The aliases in my Apple Menu Folder have the correct
icons and the icons in the apple menu are also correct.
Strange and disconcerting!
Peter C
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(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)(O) (O)(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) (06/27/91)
In article <1991Jun25.145400.400@viewlogic.com>, peter@viewlogic.com (Peter Colby) writes: > > I have discovered an interesting bug in System 7. I have a number > of applications on a hard disk partition (in different folders). These > applications all have aliases in the Apple Menu Folder of the System Folder > on a separate partition which is my boot partition. > I was forced to rebuild the desktop of the "applications" partition > and all the applications that were aliased into the Apple Menu ended up with > generic application icons. The icons in the Finder's Get Info window are > also generic. > I have checked the BNDL resources for those applications and the > ICN#s are correct. The aliases in my Apple Menu Folder have the correct > icons and the icons in the apple menu are also correct. What disk partitioning software are you using (if any)? It may be that that's causing the problem rather than System 7. I had the exact same problem last week on my Games partition. What was really weird was that stuff I copied from the Games partition onto floppies also had generic icons. In the finish (after trying everything else) I deleted the partition. Voila, the problem instantly went away - all icons reverted to normal (including the ones on floppies!). I had been having trouble with the partition anyway (I managed to mount it twice at one point!), so I figured it was the partitioning software that was at fault. I'm using Hard Disk Partition by FWB Software (I think). I haven't had any problems since. -- See ya Nigel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel Stanger, Internet: stanger@otago.ac.nz c/o University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Phone: +64 3 479-8179 Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. Fax: +64 3 479-8311 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If I had a quote, I'd be wearing it." -- Bob Dylan ----------------------------------------------------------------------
mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) (06/28/91)
In article <1991Jun27.140645.624@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes: >In article <1991Jun25.145400.400@viewlogic.com>, peter@viewlogic.com (Peter Colby) writes: >> >> I have discovered an interesting bug in System 7. I have a number >> of applications on a hard disk partition (in different folders). These >> applications all have aliases in the Apple Menu Folder of the System Folder >> on a separate partition which is my boot partition. >> I was forced to rebuild the desktop of the "applications" partition >> and all the applications that were aliased into the Apple Menu ended up with >> generic application icons. The icons in the Finder's Get Info window are >> also generic. Greetings, I've had the same problem. It turns out that the alias format used by all the pre-release system 7 versions is not compatible with the release version. If you have aliases hanging around from a beta version, they will confuse the Finder. You need to delete all the aliases made with the old versions, and replace them with new ones. I also found that changing the name of the partitions will screw the aliases up, requiring them to be deleted and re-made.