dcw@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (David C. Worenklein) (06/05/91)
In article <1991Jun5.050241.23920@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> I wrote: >I replaced my hard disk's icon with a neat picture of Hobbes (you know, Calvin >and Hobbes...) Then somehow the icon got eaten, and I'm left with a dumb >document icon (piece of paper with folded corner) Whenever I try to paste >into the hard disk's get icon box, I get the message "The command can not >be completed, because it could not be found." (Is that proper grammer?) > I tried everything I could think of, then finally went for broke by going >back to system 6.0.5, deleting the Desktop DB and DF files, and rebuilding >the desktop in 7, but the icon's still a document, and it's still irreplacable. > >What do I do? Here's what I did... I stuck a blank disk into the drive and pasted an icon into its get info box. I then went into ResEdit and "Got File/Folder info" for the file "Icon" on the blank disk. I unchecked the "invisible" box. Then I went into the finder and dragged the (now visible) "Icon" file onto my Hard Drive. I then returned to ResEdit and made the "Icon" file invisible on both drives. Then I went back to finder and pasted the Hobbes icon onto my hard drive - and it worked! :-) Finally, I cleared the icon from my floppy disk - but this isn't really essential. Hope this helps some people! =============================================================================== David C Worenklein CC '93 | No one could tell me where my soul might be. Columbia University | I searched for God, but He eluded me. in the City of New York | I sought out my brother and found all three.-Crosby