mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) (06/04/91)
Greetings, I'm having a curious problem. Right after I installed System 7, I started noticing that my icons were disappearing. Specifically, the icons of the applications that I use most often change from their proper selves to the generic app icons, and their document icons sometimes go with them. Rebuilding the desktop would usually fix the problem, but only for one or two boots at most. [System config appears at bottom] The situation is this: my LaCie Cirrus 105 (formatted with SilverLining 5.27) is partitioned into four partitions: system; swap; apps; data. For my most-frequently-used apps, I have aliases in the Apple Menu Items folder on my startup partition. Most of the apps reside on the app partition, although a couple of utilities reside on the system partition. It was noted that when the icons went away, the ones for the apps on the system partition stayed. When the icons went, not only the alias icons, but also the icons of the original apps, over on the app partition, also changed to the generic app icon. When the apps were run, though, the proper icon appeared in the application menu. I've tried everything I could think of. This included: disabling suspicious inits; disabling ALL extensions; rebuilding the desktop; deleting all the desktop files with ResEdit and rebuilding from scratch; running the installer again over the present system; totally wiping my boot partition and installing from scratch. All this was to no avail. After one or two boots, BANG! Gone. Genric icons again. Finally, I read a suggestion (I think on America Online) to copy the apps in question to the system partition, then delete them, so that the apropriate bundle resources would get tossed into the Desktop files on the system partition. So, having oodles of space left over after nuking that whole partition, I said, "Sure" and copied all the apps over. They're still there, in fact. I've rebooted about 15 times now, and all the icons are still there in the apple menu. Note: the aliases still point to the app partition, NOT to the copies of the apps sitting on the system partition. I haven't had the guts to delete the apps from the system partition again yet. Would anybody like to hazzard a guess at why I'm seeing this behavior? I find it hard to believe that the aliases wouldn't carry the apropriate bundle info with them! According to LaCie, v5.27 of SilverLining should be fine, provided that I'm not using 32-bits, which I'm certainly not, since I'm on a IIx (hi, Apple...). The system can't seriously expect me to actually physically copy aliased apps to the startup volume temporarily, then delete them! Even if I do, what happens the next time the desktop is rebuilt? Ideas? Please? Thanks! --Mike System: Mac IIx, 8Mb, LaCie Cirrus 105 (formatted w/SilverLining 5.27), Apple RGB with SuperMac ColorCard/24, Radius Pivot, DoubleUP hardware compression board. System 7.0 (release version). Extensions: Sigma Compression INIT, AppleShare, Color Arrow, DAL, DiskDoubler 3.7, Eyeballs, File Sharing, IconWrap, P Key, SmoothClock, Understudy, Type Align, Radius Ware, CE Toolbox, Dimmer, Easy Access, Mouse2, QuicKeys 2, SCSI Probe, SoundMaster, SuperClock, Temperament2, DeskPicture, ATM, Super Boomerang, Super Boomerang Fixer, Disinfectant. File Sharing is OFF. VM is OFF. Program linking is OFF. 32-bit mode is UNAVAILABLE. :-(