Re: What's in the Desktop file in /Icons?

[ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

:    The desktop file is built by the Finder, containing icons,
: application paths, window size and position info, etc about files on
: the drive. They occasionally get corrupted (though I've never
: experienced one-- I'd like to, so I can figure out what and where
: things are going astray and patch it), and no real harm is done in
: toasting the files.

   Gee, Nathan.  I could have sent you mine before I dumped it if it 
would have helped you build a patch.  This is twice I've had this 
problem.  The other time (awhile back) I simply reformatted the hard 
drive and reinstalled 6.0.1 from the master disks and it cleared it up.
   
   This time, however, I didn't want to trash all of the extra files 
(about 200) that I have in various partitions to do various things.

   I do a lot of file testing using PMPUnzip 2.0, GSCII+, Shrinkit and 
downloads from the Internet.  I do a bit of C programming too so I don't 
know exactly what caused the bad file.  If it happens again, I'll drop 
you a note on it to see if you still want it (if it's at all helpful).

Tony