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- From: jackr@wpd.sgi.com (John "Jack" Repenning)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: 7.0.1* Pointless Floppy Flip-Flops
- Date: 14 Dec 92 21:43:10
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- Distribution: comp
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- There are several questions here: Can anyone tell me how to avoid
- this? Can anyone explain it to satisfy my curiosity? Can someone at
- Apple try to make sure it doesn't happen in the next release?
-
- Set up: I have a Mac SE/30, running 7.0.1* (both tuners). I have four
- floppy icons on the desk top, representing four floppies that I
- inserted and then Cmd-Y'd out.
-
- "It": when I drag something from the hard disk to the trash (an
- operation which, it seems to me, has nothing to do with any of the
- floppies), I have to insert each floppy twice, in rotation, before the
- trash goes all bulgy and happy. Something roughly similar happens
- when I empty the trash.
-
- "More It": Actually, I lied. I "only" have to cycle through three of
- the floppies; the fourth (well, actually, the first) doesn't feel the
- need to play this game. [I don't feel the need, either, but my
- feelings are not germaine, apparently!]
-
- The four floppies are: Blue Scratch, Orange Scratch, It's Pink and
- Wrinkled, and If It's Pink Don't Scratch (I sometimes get a little
- silly when naming floppies late at night ....). I can't recall when
- they were formatted, so feel free to assume funny things in that
- regard (maybe 7.0 floppies flip-flop? maybe un-tuned ones do?). This
- evening, I inserted Blue Scratch, trashed some files, emptied the
- trash, copied some files on, then Cmd-Y'ed it out. Then, I inserted
- Orange Scratch, trashed, emptied, and Cmd-Y'd. The pink party needed
- no trashing when inserted and Cmd-Y'ed. Since that time, I've been
- drag-n-dropping files, one by one, from the hard disk onto these
- floppies, and (as each copy completes) drag-n-dropping the hard-disk
- files to the trash. Which is why, by now, I have the floppy flip flop
- process memorized!
-
- Explanations, oh net wizards??
-
-
-
- Jack Repenning 1-875 jackr@wpd.sgi.com
- Silicon Graphics, Inc. Off:(415) 390-3027
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