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- From: chang hsu liu <cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Strange system problems!!
- Message-ID: <BzEAzM.KE6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Sender: <cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 08:45:21 GMT
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- Dear netters,
-
- I have several minor (but annoying) problems on the system 7.0.1
- with tuneup I'd like to find answers. All of the problems won't go
- away after re-installation of the system software or with extensions
- off. The disk was formatted with Hard disk Toolkit PE.
-
- 1) "By Label" won't work, and it becomes "Get Info."
- I cannot use "By Label" for "View" on Finder. When I choose it, the view
- won't change and I get the info box of the folder if the folder is my
- current view. It won't do anything if a hard disk is my top view. All
- the other views work. (By name, by date,.....)
-
- 2) "Get Info" won't work on "hard disk" and "Trash."
- "Get Info" won't work on the hard disk and trash, but works on folders.
- But it's strange that I could "get info" from the aliases of the Hard drive
- and Trash.
-
- 3) Color Switch and Finder redraw.
- I liked using "Color Switch" to change monitor settings, but I found one
- very irritating desktop redraw recently. It would redraw the desktop
- everytime I change the color depth. It takes 3-4 seconds on my machine.
- I don't remember seeing this when I first started using it. Is there any
- known conflict between Color Switch and other extensions. I felt that
- SpeedyFinder could be the reason, but I was not completely sure.
-
- 4) BeHierarchic problem?
- I used create a alias for hard disk or a folder and put it in Apple menu
- items, so that I could access the folder hierarchically from Apple menu
- with the help of BeHierarchic. It works fine. But everytime I have a crash
- and when I restart the Mac, it takes far longer time to show the desktop
- after the CDEVs, extensions are loaded. After the loading of extensions,
- I see my external hard disk (200Mb) flashes for 30 seconds to 1 mintues,
- then my internal (80Mb) flashes another 30 seconds. After these two
- steps, my hard disk redraws the desktop (antoher 10 seconds). It dries
- me crazy. I suspect that BeHierachic need to update the folder info after
- a crash. It doesn't happen again after I remove the CDEV. Is there a
- good substitute for BeHierarchic? I really like the hierarchical menu but
- I hate to wait so long after the crash.
-
-
- Thanks in advance for the input.
-
- Peter Liu
-
- cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
-