Re: Disappearing GS/OS filetypes caused by Print 3200?

[audubon@vixa.voyager.net ()]

Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: 	I've been having a problem with filetypes disappearing in
: Finder 6.0.1 for over a week. That is when I select 'View by Kind'
: within a window or request specific file information using 'Icon Info', 
: there is a blank space shown. Not all filetypes are affected, only 
: certain kinds such as: "Unknown", "Icons", "Macintosh Application", 
: "Applesoft BASIC program", "Finder data", etc. Other filetype remain
: unaffected.

: 	I finally tracked down the source of the problem, it seems to be
: BRCC's "Print 3200" program. After it's installed on one of my partitions
: it updates the Desktop file in the /Icons folder (or creates one if none
: exists). Copyright information and the path the program is located is 
: added to the Desktop file. The problem is, as soon as this occurs, I 
: experience the problem described above -- a blank space replaces certain
: filetypes in the Finder. If I purge the Desktop file it's created, the
: problem is gone, but _returns_ as soon as I launch Print 3200 again (it
: updates the Desktop file each time). Can someone tell me if this is a bug
: in Print 3200 or perhaps something else with my setup? 

: Mitchell Spector
: spector@vax2.concordia.ca





I've had similar problems.  Sometimes certain filetypes will show up as 
inversed questionmarks.  Whenever this happens the desktop is slowed down 
a lot while displaying these files.  But mine has done this for a while 
without Print 3200.

Bryan
Audubon@vixa.voyager.net