Re: MacOS 7.1 Question

[Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <bdq2sf$9gv$1@woodrow.ucdavis.edu>, Chris Alaimo
<cpalaimo@excite.com> wrote:

>        I know if I ask this in a mac newsgroup I'll get flamed for using
> such an old system.  Using MacOS 7.1, I put a floppy disk into the drive and
> dragged the contents of the disk onto the desktop.  When I eject the disk,
> the stuff disappears.  Did it even actually copy the contents of the disk
> onto the hard drive, or are they just shortcuts.  I want to permanently copy
> the files onto my desktop and have them visible no matter what disk if any
> is in the drive.  I;m trying to use this Mac to make Apple ][ disks, so it's
> kind of Apple ][ related.  Thanks.

You're afraid you'll get flamed if you admit using an old machine in an
appropriate group, so you post to an inappropriate one? Pardon me while
I boggle.

Now then:

No, it didn't copy anything to the hard drive. It moved the files from
the directory they were in to the directory representing the desktop on
the same volume. The desktop is a conceptual space containing all
objects, rather than, say, a fixed directory on whatever the boot drive
happens to be. If you want the files to be copied to another volume,
you have to actually put them into another volume. The if you want you
can mvoe them to that volumes chunk of the uber-Desktop.

G