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- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!asuvax!asuacad!aubxg
- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 13:47:21 MST
- From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92322.134721AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Desktop file's getting screwed up, What to do?
- References: <BxM45K.3v@newcastle.ac.uk> <1dudukINNhg5@transfer.stratus.com>
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- Me four....
-
- I have basically two complaints about A/UX; the first is that sound
- is all screwed up (which wouldn't be so bad if I weren't a professional
- musician), and what I've considered a screwed-up desktop. I first noticed
- it when custom icons (the kind you past into the get info window)
- disappeared, even though some poking around with ResEdit showed that
- the related invisible Icon files were still healthy. Futher symptoms:
-
- o windows often revert to the default size
- o applications such as Fetch or CompactPro seem incabable of
- giving files anything other than the generic icon
- o a "crash" (i.e., I have to cmd-control-e, or telnet in and
- kill my login process to unfreez a Mac application) almost
- invariably screws up the desktop
-
- And, probably, more that I can't think of at the moment. As a result of
- all this, I've become quite adept at rm'ing the Desktop DB and DF files--
- that reminds me, neither cmd-opt nor shift on login do anything, claims
- in the manual to the contrary notwithstanding--and even had a shell script
- that did the trick at one point.
-
- None of this would be especially annoying if it didn't take a good ten
- minutes or so to rebuild the desktop. I've tried making backup copies
- of the Desk*DB and Desk*DF files, but that doesn't seem to do much of
- anything constructive.
-
- Anybody from Apple out there listening?
-
- b&
-