Re: How do I rebuild desktop database?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <jbcole-ya02408000R0905971341540001@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
JB <jbcole@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>I think my database is damaged.  I use to be able to double click on files
>and it would open the application, (i.e., teach) now it just says it can't
>be located and then I have to locate the app.  This happens every time. 
>The database never seems to get updated?  Any help would be appreciated.

   Easiest way: from Finder, go to prefs, turn off hide invisible
files.  In each disk partition's 'Icons' folder, there should be a
file named 'desktop'. Delete it. [Well, better yet, is to rename it to
something else, and send it on to me so I might be able to take a look
at it.]  That'll just force a new desktop database file to be created;
you'll still have to click on each file that put its rBundles into
there to rebuild it.

   Better way: Softdisk G-S #47 or 48, program I wrote called
'Rebuilder'. Deletes the desktop file, then scans the drive for all
rBundles and adds them.

Nathan Mates

--
<*> Nathan Mates http://www.visi.com/~nathan/      <*>
# What are the facts? Again and again and again-- what are the _facts_?
# Shun wishful thinking, avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors
# think-- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?  -R.A. Heinlein