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

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <594mge$c42@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>,
Jeffrey Robertson <jeffr@bnr.ca> wrote:
>So what was in that file he trashed?  I too have a desktop file
>on most of my partitions, and I'd like to get rid of them, but
>i don't know what they do.  I've seen the finder create them
>for me, but I'm not sure of the risk of deleting them

   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.

Nathan Mates


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