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- From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
- Subject: Re: 7.0.1* Pointless Floppy Flip-Flops
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.142927.24756@tdb.uu.se>
- Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
- Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:29:27 GMT
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- John Jack Repenning (jackr@wpd.sgi.com) wrote:
- : 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??
-
- What happens if you increase the disk cache? Set it to a huge value and try
- again. I'm not sure it will help, but I'd be very interested to know the
- result.
-
- /Mats
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