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Alan Peter Suggitt <sug@apsayton.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk) wrote:
>> Does it STILL use them? Most of my drawers don't contain a ".info". I
>> imaged the window position would be stored in drawer.info rather than
>> drawer/.info

Right. The drawer data is stored in drawer.info. The .info files
kept the list of icon names so that workbench doesn't have to
scan the directory for #?.info files when it opens a drawer. The
.info file is timestamped, when it gets out of date compared to
the modification date of the directory then it is ignored and
then recreated after the directory scan if the disk was writeable.

>I think it was only used by prior to 2.0, the 2.04 UpdateWB script
>specifically deleted the .info files from the sys: directories

Dunno about the update script, but yes, the .info files aren't used
anymore since WB2.0. Directory scanning speed is much faster in 2.0
and the need for .info files is gone.

Regards,
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