sar26657@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sam Roseman) (05/31/91)
I don't think this has been brought up before, so here it goes: I have several folders located right on the desktop, under my hard disk icon. Under system 7, everything is ok. But if I boot off of my startup disk (the one that came w/ my IIsi), or off of the sys 7 disktools disk, these folders on the desktop do NOT show up....There is no way to access any info inside them. What gives? running on a IIsi, with 40 meg internal, 5 megs ram, apple mono monitor Sam Roseman University of Illinois
sar26657@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sam Roseman) (05/31/91)
sar26657@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sam Roseman) writes: >I don't think this has been brought up before, so here it goes: >I have several folders located right on the desktop, under my >hard disk icon. Under system 7, everything is ok. But if I boot >off of my startup disk (the one that came w/ my IIsi), or off of >the sys 7 disktools disk, these folders on the desktop do NOT show >up....There is no way to access any info inside them. What gives? i have been told that these folders are inside a "Desktop" folder on the hard disk, which is correct - although it kinda sucks.... also: about half of my files claim to be aliases- when they are double clicked it figures out that their docs or apps and fixes them - youd think that apple would get this straight for a released version.... - Sam >Sam Roseman >University of Illinois
jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) (05/31/91)
sar26657@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sam Roseman) writes: >sar26657@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sam Roseman) writes: >>I don't think this has been brought up before, so here it goes: [deleted] >also: about half of my files claim to be aliases- when they are >double clicked it figures out that their docs or apps and fixes them - >youd think that apple would get this straight for a released version.... >- Sam I had this occour with a number of items as well. The problem is that these items had the Alias bit checked. While using System 6, this bit did not effect you in any way, but in System 7 the files appear to be aliases. I don't think Apple did wrong by not automatically changing this bit when System 7 is installed - this way you do not break files that really are aliases. And regarding your first item, about the Desktop Folder - This is a new feature of System 7, that enables you to place items into the desktop from within applications. However, when you boot from System 6.0.x, you will instead see the Desktop Folder, in which you can find the items that in System 7 were on the desktop. A similar thing is the Trash Folder - this is where items that were sitting in the trash can be found. Jason D. Blue The MITRE Corporation