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- From: dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Which app gets launched?
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:49:09 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley, Agr & Res Economics
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- In article <1i9uidINN35l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> dev@cats.ucsc.edu (/dev/null) writes:
- >
- >The app gets launched from whichever disk was mounted last, and on a particular
- >disk, the first entry in the DeskTop file is used.
- >
- >This has the really obnoxious effect of always launching an application from
- >a fileserver even if there is a copy of the app on your hard disk.
- >
- >I haven't found any predictable way to reorder the entries in the DeskTop file.
-
- True, it's not really predictable, but the last moved copy of the
- application should be the first one found in the desktop file.
- >A "third party marketing opportunity" would be a Finder Hack that lets a user
- >manually pick out which application they really want launched, and have it
- >remembered. If it can't be found, then the Finder would continue its search
- >path.
-
- What I do to accomplish this (using System 7 is necessary though)
- is to make an alias to the desired copy of the application and put
- it in a convenient place (for me that's the desktop) and then
- open documents by drag and drop on the application alias rather
- than double-clicking the document.
-
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- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
- dana@are.Berkeley.EDU University of California, Berkeley
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