Re: A problem with System 6

[taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <mark-051093101717@128.157.9.145>, Mark Manning writes...
> 
> Ok.  A while back I posted that I had had a problem with System 6.

    Is this System 6.0 or 6.01?  I'll assume 6.0 for now...

> 1. Loss of 5.25" drives.
>    A. When the system is booted, it looks for (and finds) my 5.25"
>       disk drives.  After running a ProDos8 program though, System
>       6 looses them and I can not get them back until I either:
>       1) Run a ProDos16 program
>       2) Reboot

    I think this sort of behaviour was more or less fixed in System
6.01.  I don't have a 5.25" drive, so I can't comment on how it works,
but apparently 6.01 tends to overestimate rather than underestimate the
number of drives in a system.

>    A. After running a ProDos8 program (Chameleon) I found all of my
>       icons to have garbaged out.

    This only happens when you run Chameleon, or any ProDOS 8 program? 
I haven't seen this problem with my installation of 6.01 yet, but it did
happen once in a while with 6.0.  Restarting the Finder (a single
keystroke if you use the HotKeys Finder extension) cures the problem.  I
don't know why rebooting wouldn't help, unless it corrupted your icon
files on disk.

> 3. Window size information lost.
>    A. This is an old problem which I never found out what the outcome
>       of this was.  Basically, if you open a window and resize the
>       window via the expand-o-matic box, and then run an application;
>       then the expand-o-matic size becomes the default size.

    Works fine for me.

> 4. Not keeping Finder info equals always seeing the same thing.
>    A. Another problem which cropped up when I turned off the saving of
>       Finder information to the disk.  I found that the same windows
>       kept popping back up as open after exiting an application even
>       though those windows had been closed and others opened.

    That's probably because it keeps using the last settings before you
turned off the auto-save feature.  You can close all the windows, but it
doesn't save that to disk (because you turned it off).  The next time
the Finder comes up, it goes back to the old settings.  Turn that
preference back on, set up the windows the way you like 'em, restart the
Finder, then turn the preference off.  You can also do what I do: lock
individual Finder.Data and Finder.Root files to selectively "freeze"
certain folder and drive windows.
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