mlg@cbnews.cb.att.com (Mike Goodrich) (02/13/91)
I have a problem with the Desktop Manager, it keeps messing up the icons for various types of files. For example the problem I have currently is that all the applications that have generic application icons now have MacPaint Icons also all the hypercard stacks are now generic documents ( no stack icons). Some other problems that have been occuring are that the Desktop Manager doesn't know where applications are across disk volumes. I have an 100MB disk that is partitioned into 2 50MB partitions (I used Silverlining to do this). When I double click on a MacWrite file and it tells me that the application that I am looking for is busy or missing (under finder). But when I go to the application (MacWrite on the other disk volume) and double click on it everything is fine. I can then go and open the file with no problem. I was just wondering is this a general problem with the Desktop Manager or is there a newer verions that I can get a hold of (not sure what version of DM I have it seems pretty old). Any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Mike mlg@cblph.att.com
yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) (02/14/91)
In article <1991Feb12.212259.14735@cbnews.att.com> mlg@cbnews.cb.att.com (Mike Goodrich) writes: > > I have a problem with the Desktop Manager, it keeps messing up the icons for > various types of files. For example the problem I have currently is that > all the applications that have generic application icons now have MacPaint Icons > also all the hypercard stacks are now generic documents ( no stack icons). > ... > I was just wondering is this a general problem with the Desktop Manager or is > there a newer verions that I can get a hold of (not sure what version of DM I > have it seems pretty old). Any help that you can give would be greatly > appreciated. > Well I had the exact same problem as far as the generic documents coming up with MacPaint icons. The problems was a DA/Application package called "Apple Draw" (no relation to Apple Co.). The application munged the Desktop file so that all generic documents to display as MacPaint docs. So I just trashed the Apple Draw application and rebuilt the the desktop and all was fine. BTW: the Apple Draw DA seems pretty nice, but the application wasn't. I use the Desktop Manager also. I think that the most recent Desktop Manager is 2.01. I like the Desktop Manager, but I hate the way it has a file that is alway open. For these types of problems, removing recently installed apps, and rebuilding the desktop is usually the solution. Find the application that causing the problem is the difficult part. =Mike -- = Michael K. Yee -- yee@osf.org or uunet!osf.org!yee -- = OSF/Motif Development = "I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." -- The Wizard of OZ