Re: System Folder

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

<cshank@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:

> On 6 Apr 1997, Nathan Mates wrote:
> 
> > In article <5i70p5$1qi@nr1.calgary.istar.net>,
> > Brian Uhreen  <bduhreen@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
> > >   I was wondering if somebody could tell me what to change the resource
> > >id of the system folder to so that the magic routing would work every time.
> > >I used to have it but I lost it to a hard drive crash...sigh..
> > 
> >    Park the system folder on your desktop, and you'll never have to
> > worry about the ID. If you'd rather not do that, I think the magic
> > auxtype  (not resource id) ID for the system folder is 00000001 or
> > 00000002.
> 
> What is magic routing?

It is a feature added to the Finder in either System 6.0 or 6.0.1: if
you drag a file onto the System folder icon, and the file is of a type
which normally gets placed in one of the sub-folders, then Finder asks
if you want to put it in the correct sub-folder.

The problem is that if you have the System folder icon in a window, then
Finder loses the special icon, and magic routing is broken until you
close the window and open it again.  One solution to this is to leave
the icon for the System folder on the desktop.  The other solution is to
patch the auxiliary type of the System folder (I think it is supposed to
be set to 0002, but I cannot find the document which mentions it).

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David Empson
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