ian@umiami.ir.miami.edu (06/16/91)
I'm not sure if this belongs here..but anyways.. We wer messing around with an external hard-drive the other day(It's quantum) Trying to paste a new icon into it's get info box...we could copy from another get info box...or ResEdit...but as soon as we got into the Drives get info dialog the paste option just greyed out...so my quick witted colleague went and deleted the Icon Resource from the Icon file on the Drive...The one where the Masking Icon is stored I believe..So anyway now it should come up with the normal icon ...Maybe... nope now we get a unknown file icon...Text Only Icon or some such..And we still can't paste an icon into it's Info Dialog...very wierd...I don't think it's affecting the drives performance..how could it.. but it is annoying to have the Text only Icon for it... Anyone have an idea? Thanx in advance -- Scruffy Ian Sullivan ******************************************************************************* **ian@umbio.med.miami.edu % "God is dead"- Nietsche ** **ian@umiami.ir.miami.edu % "Nietsche is dead"- God ** **ian@umiami.bitnet % "Nietsche is God"- The Dead ** ** % ** **UUU UMUMMM MMMMMM % "Skate to Kill--Kill to Skate" ** **UUU UMU MMM MMM MMM % ** **uUU UMU MMM MMM MMM % "Life's been good to me so far..." -J.W. ** **UUUUUUUUMUof MMMMM MMM % "Give it a while." -Me. ** ******************************************************************************* Damn, Underwater Basket Weaving 302 is filled, well there goes my summer! I know I spelled it wrong...whatever it was. ;)
ccocsme@prism.gatech.EDU (StatMan) (06/16/91)
In article <1991Jun15.202806.10648@umiami.ir.miami.edu> ian@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes: >I'm not sure if this belongs here..but anyways.. >We wer messing around with an external hard-drive the other day(It's quantum) >Trying to paste a new icon into it's get info box...we could copy from another >get info box...or ResEdit...but as soon as we got into the Drives get info >dialog the paste option just greyed out...so my quick witted colleague went >and deleted the Icon Resource from the Icon file on the Drive...The one where >the Masking Icon is stored I believe..So anyway now it should come up with the >normal icon ...Maybe... nope now we get a unknown file icon...Text Only Icon >or some such..And we still can't paste an icon into it's Info Dialog...very >wierd...I don't think it's affecting the drives performance..how could it.. >but it is annoying to have the Text only Icon for it... >Anyone have an idea? >Thanx in advance Yes, this happened to me to. What happens is that the invisible 'Icon' file has five or six characters that aren't seen. So when you try to rebuild that icon file, the system will always return with a file not found error because you dont have the inivisible characters. What I did to correct this was to paste a custom icon onto a floppy, and then use resedit to make it visible, then dragged the icon file from the floppy to the hard drive, then make it invisible using resedit. Remember, when copying a custom icon to paste, you need to go all the to the fatbits editor and copy the icon from there. You should be then able to see the custom icon in the clipboard before you do a paste. -- "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore..." -- Dorothy Gale Marty Esterman ccocsme@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Tech - Home of the 1990 NCAA Football National Champions