Re: Desktop Icons

[Rich Hare <rhare@mich.com>]

Thank you!
I will test this theory a couple of ways and report back to the group:
1) I will format a MSDOS 1.44 disk and put one short filename on it,
2) I will format a 1.44 disk with ProDOS and try it in the drive.



Supertimer wrote:
> 
> Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> >Rich Hare writes ...
> >>
> >> I've got a new small problem with my IIGS.
> >> I have a Bluedisk card which has worked very well for years, and still
> >> does.  I changed a few things around last month, and now have a new
> >> problem.  Previously, when I put a MSDOS disk in the drive, and pushed
> >> "Control" to poll the drive, the disk would appear on the desktop and I
> >> could "drag and drop" to copy from the icon.  (The MSDOS FST is read
> >> only)
> >>
> >> Now, the icon doesn't appear on the desktop.  The Watson utilities (and
> >> others as well, such as Utilityworks, find the disk just fine; it just
> >> doesn't appear on the desktop.
> >
> >     You can always try scrapping the file named "Desktop" in the ICONS/
> folder (on
> >the boot partition and/or other partitions).  Desktop gets changed from time
> to
> >time by programs which want to install their icon(s). Sometimes the result is
> to
> >corrupt Desktop.
> >
> >     A corrupted Desktop file is a fairly common problem for System 6 users
> who
> >routinely add new applications and start them directly from the Finder. It's
> >effects can range from undetectable (almost) up through missing icons and
> crashing
> >the system. (Really, the Finder should have some way of validating an icon
> input to
> >Desktop from an application. Either it doesn't or the check is inadequate.)
> 
> Good advice if it were the Desktop file, but that's not his problem.
> ProDOS, HFS, and MS-DOS disks use the same icon.  The
> icon shows up when a ProDOS or HFS disk is inserted but not
> an MS-DOS disk.  Therefore, the problem is not with the Desktop
> file.
> 
> The problem is the MS-DOS FST not being able to deal with
> Windows 95 (and Windows 98) long file names.  Whenever
> this feature is used on ANY file on the disk, the disk will
> become invisible to the MS-DOS FST (or rather invisible to
> the Finder for purposes of mounting an icon when it polls
> the MS-DOS FST).  Even if you later delete all the files with
> long file names, it will NOT fix the disappearing icon problem.
> 
> So use Windows 95 or Windows 98 features when saving
> to a floppy means the floppy will only be accessable using
> MUG!