Re: Desktop Icons

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Supertimer writes ...
> 
> 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, 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.
 ....
> 
> Good advice if it were the Desktop file,

     Granted, if a Desktop file is okay, then scrapping it will not help.

> 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.

     Depends upon how the MS-DOS stuff obtains an icon. If, say, some MS-DOS stuff
application sticks a copy into Desktop and says 'that's the one to use', then it
seems like a messed up Desktop could cause the copy to disappear for just MS-DOS
volumes.


> 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).

     Shouldn't the MS-DOS file system translator complain and have an error
message posted?


> Even if you later delete all the files with
> long file names, it will NOT fix the disappearing icon problem.
>

     Which may relate to a difference in directory format when long file names are
used.

 
> So use Windows 95 or Windows 98 features when saving
> to a floppy means the floppy will only be accessable using
> MUG!

     Too bad. Wonder if there is some relatively simple change that would fix the
MS-DOS FST.



Rubywand