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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Where do things go when you move them to a folder?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.045538.15204@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Summary: I guess I don't understand the mapping from filesystem to GUI...
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:55:38 GMT
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- Here's the scenario:
- 1) I open up the drives Icon, and then open up a Icon view of a
- directory on the hard disk.
- 2) This gives me a display of all the files in that directory.
- (This display maps directly onto what I get if I go to a DOS
- window and do a dir of the directory)
- 3) Now, I create a folder in the directory that is being
- displayed, and move a file from the directory Icon view into the
- folder.
- 4) Now, I go to DOS, and do a dir of the directory, and lo, the
- file is no longer there. Worse, the file is nowhere on the
- disk (I used a DOS file find utility, and it was nowhere to
- be found) So, where is it?
- 5) Finally, if I go back to the desktop, and move the file back
- out of the folder into the directory Icon view, then when I go
- to DOS, the file is there.
-
- I am running GA.
-
- Is there no way to have the file be in a folder, and also visible to DOS?
-
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