Re: Finder Questions

[wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu (William H. Squires)]

In article <1993Jan27.213041.25388@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu (William H. Squires) writes:
>Ignore this posting and read followup instead.
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  Sorry about that, folks. My local gateway acts up about the Keywords: stuff.
Oh, well. Here it is.
  Under GS/OS 5.04 (and earlier), The custom-made icons for my nifty apps and
data files show up just fine. When I boot System 6.0, I lose some of my icons
(probably to embedded rIcon resources) while others work fine. The questions:

1. Can I tell System 6.0 to ignore the rIcon resources and use the icons in the
   ICON files instead? (perhaps with a patch)

2. When I switch back to 5.04, I lose the Finder.Data icon locations (i.e. the
   system puts the icons back wherever it wants). Can I prevent this by locking
   any of the Finder droppings files (Finder.=)?

3. What does the Finder.Root file do (other than show up every time I run an
   app from the desktop)?

4. Is there some way to keep the Finder.Root file from disappearing when I
   run an app. from another volume, or shutdown from the finder menu (short
   of telling the finder to hide the Finder droppings?

5. Referring to # 1 above. If I can't make a patch, can I remove the rIcon
   resource (with a resource editor/compiler like Rez)?


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