Subject: Re: lost AppleDesktop data!
From: Flint Million (dukenukm@zevils.com)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2001 - 15:47:09 EST
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Marc Miller wrote:
> You can try rebuilding the desktop (see your MacOS manual on that), but I
> don't know if that will bring back your icons or not.
Hmmmm... I'm not sure how to do that on a network drive. I know you can
rebuild the desktop on the HD by holding down something like
Command-option while booting, but that doesn't work on net drives.
> If that doesn't
> work, you'll just have to open up one file of each file type and resave it
> (forcing the AppleDesktop icon and file type data to be rewritten).
>
OK, that works for those apps that actually save data, but some of the
apps do not have any save features (mostly because they don't need
them)...
> > netatalk 1.4+asun1.2
> > linux 2.2.16 in an i486
> >
> >
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