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- From: wdh@netcom.com (Bill Hofmann)
- Subject: Re: The Forgetful Finder
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.174217.23367@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov5.174108.20232@hobbes.kzoo.edu> <Nov.9.12.14.27.1992.24843@math.rutgers.edu> <keith-091192124523@kip-16.taligent.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:42:17 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin) writes:
-
- >In article <Nov.9.12.14.27.1992.24843@math.rutgers.edu>,
- >bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus) wrote:
- >>
- >> k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
- >>
- >> > Every once in a while, when you restart, the Finder will forget some
- >> > information about one or more windows. Sometimes they're open windows,
- >> > sometimes not. It remembers icon placements, but not the View-By,
- >> > window size, or window location. I've never noticed any pattern to it.
- >>
- >> This is just pure theory, but I think the explanation is that the
- >> Finder saves this kind of info only when you unmount the disk (or some
- >> such.) Anyway, when you crash and restart it doesn't have a chance to
- >> write these settings to disk. I've had it happen too (on both an SI
- >> and an SE/30).
- >>
- >> Any confirmations?
-
- >The problem occurs even if you don't crash. I've even seen it happen
- >without restarting my computer. I close the window, and some later when I
- >re-open it, the layout information has been munged.
-
- >-----
- >Keith Rollin
- >Phantom Programmer
- >Taligent, Inc.
- This must be one of those "only a few hundred" open bugs in 7.1. It's a
- common experience, and there seems to be no particular cause for it.
- I reported it into the great black hole using the bug reporter, I hope
- others will as well. Another disturbing bug is that when I boot up,
- multiple finder windows have their controls showing. Hmmm. Happens
- every time, consistently.
-
- -Bill Hofmann
-