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In article <1i9uidINN35l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> dev@cats.ucsc.edu (/dev/null) writes:
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>The app gets launched from whichever disk was mounted last, and on a particular
>disk, the first entry in the DeskTop file is used.
>
>This has the really obnoxious effect of always launching an application from
>a fileserver even if there is a copy of the app on your hard disk.
>
>I haven't found any predictable way to reorder the entries in the DeskTop file.

True, it's not really predictable, but the last moved copy of the
application should be the first one found in the desktop file.
>A "third party marketing opportunity" would be a Finder Hack that lets a user
>manually pick out which application they really want launched, and have it
>remembered.  If it can't be found, then the Finder would continue its search
>path.

What I do to accomplish this (using System 7 is necessary though)
is to make an alias to the desired copy of the application and put
it in a convenient place (for me that's the desktop) and then
open documents by drag and drop on the application alias rather
than double-clicking the document.

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Dana E. Keil           Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
dana@are.Berkeley.EDU                 University of California, Berkeley