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- From: matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy)
- Subject: Re: Disappearing Items in Folder HELP!
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- References: <larry-140193094455@kfp-slac-mac.slac.stanford.edu> <pwd-140193225553@thunder.apple.com> <larry-150193092147@kfp-slac-mac.slac.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:57:28 GMT
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- In article <larry-150193092147@kfp-slac-mac.slac.stanford.edu>,
- larry@slacvm.Slac.stanford.edu (Bhadran Ooie) wrote:
- >
- > In article <pwd-140193225553@thunder.apple.com>, pwd@Apple.com (Patrick W.
- > P. Dirks) wrote:
- > >
- > > > I have a folder which contains 3 files and 8 folders. If I view the folder
- > > > (Tuned up System 7.01) by name, date, or other text-based listing, I have
- > > > no problem. If, however, I view by Icon or Small Icon, the window header
- > > > correctly identifies the number of items, but NO items show up in the
- > > > window, even if I expand it to fill the 16" monitor.
- > >
- > > It sounds as if the locations of the items may have gotten messed up. Are
- > > the scrollbars on the window active? If you want to see everything, switch
- > > to view by icon, hold down the option key and select "Clean up Window" from
- > > the Special menu (make sure you don't have anything selected or it'll try
- > > to clean up just those). That should place all items alphabetically in
- > > rows across the window.
- >
- > No, that's not it. The scrollbars are NOT active, and cleaning up the
- > window doesn't change anything. I did something which "fixed" the problem,
- > but I am suspicious that there it may have only cleared up the symptoms,
- > not the cause of the problem. What I did was to create another folder with
- > the same name on another drive, copy the files & folders one at a time
- > (from the name view of the problem folder), then trashed the original
- > folder and dragged a copy of the copy back. Then everything was ok. But
- > since I have hundreds & hundreds of folders at various levels of the
- > hierarchical structure, there may be other instances of this problem, so I
- > am hesitant to call it "fixed."
-
- I just helped a user with this for about the fiftieth time. It
- takes three steps:
-
- 1. In the View menu, pick view by name
-
- 2. In the View menu, pick view by small icon
-
- 3. OPTION-CLICK the Window menu, and clean-up will read
- "clean up by name." Select it.
-
- Usually what happens is that a bunch of folders get piled up
- on top of each other. "Clean up window" does *NOT* fix it
- because it just moves all the piled-up icons to the nearest
- grid position. It does not spread them out, which is what
- you need. "Clean up by Name" does spread them out properly.
-
- Also, you can control how many rows/columns you get by
- resizing the window and cleaning up by name.
-
- Matt Healy
- "I pretend to be a network administrator;
- the lab net pretends to work"
-
- matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu
-