afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) (04/18/91)
I posted a request a few days ago for the location of the Desktop Manager init. Thanks to everyone who wrote and posted locations where I could find it (the easiest being /pub/dts/mac/goodies/oscar.hqx on apple.com). I downloaded it and installed it and rebooted. I peeked at the little Desktop DF and Desktop DB files with DiskTop, and everything seemed to be swell. That was until I started looking around on my hard disk, which is partitioned into three hard partitions with Silverlining. What I noticed is that I had lost almost all of my document icons. Specifically, if a document resides on a different partition than it's creator program, the Desktop Manager desktop doesn't recognize it's creator, and lists it as a generic document. Documents which are on the same partition as their creator applications are fine. The documents still have their type and creator codes (checked with DiskTop), but the DM desktop doesn't know what to make of them. I removed the Desktop Manager init, rebooted, and everything is back to normal with the ordinary Desktop (i.e. slow and annoying, but with all the proper document types). Any ideas about what the problem might be? Alan -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alan R Fry | You know what I hate? | | afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | Rhetorical questions. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) (04/18/91)
Thanks to Jeff Wasilko who *instantaneously* answered my question! The solution is to rebuild the desktop in the usual way (by holding command and option down at startup). Everything seems to be running normally now. comp.sys.mac.system -- Faster than you can believe !! Alan P.S. I realize that two posts in a row from me is *almost* a rhetorical question (contrary to my .sig), but you know what? I don't care! (oops, that's two.... :-) -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alan R Fry | You know what I hate? | | afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | Rhetorical questions. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
markj.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Mark Rosen) (04/19/91)
afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) writes: > > I posted a request a few days ago for the location of the Desktop Manager > init. Thanks to everyone who wrote and posted locations where I could find > it (the easiest being /pub/dts/mac/goodies/oscar.hqx on apple.com). > > I downloaded it and installed it and rebooted. I peeked at the little > Desktop DF and Desktop DB files with DiskTop, and everything seemed to be > swell. > > That was until I started looking around on my hard disk, which is > partitioned into three hard partitions with Silverlining. What I noticed is > that I had lost almost all of my document icons. Specifically, if a document > resides on a different partition than it's creator program, the Desktop > Manager desktop doesn't recognize it's creator, and lists it as a generic > document. Documents which are on the same partition as their creator > applications are fine. The documents still have their type and creator codes > (checked with DiskTop), but the DM desktop doesn't know what to make of them. > > I removed the Desktop Manager init, rebooted, and everything is back to > normal with the ordinary Desktop (i.e. slow and annoying, but with all the > proper document types). > > Any ideas about what the problem might be? > > Alan > -- > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Alan R Fry | You know what I hate? > | afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | Rhetorical questions. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have to rebuild your desktop after putting DT manager in your system folder. Just restart, and hold down option-command when the finder loads. You'll get a dialog box asking if you want the desktop rebuilt. Answer yes, and you'll find all your icons are correct, and the other problems with launching are solved. Mark