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Article #1861Re: What is Move and Rename?
From: Alan D.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:56
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:56
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banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes: >When in Word (ver. 5.00, running on an SE/30 with System 7) I go to >the open dialog box, I sometimes see a folder on my hard disk called >Move and Rename (it actually has two little symbol boxes in front of the >name but I can't do them here). It is invisible from any other >application or the finder, but with ResEdit I can 'visibilise' it and >it always turns out to be empty. I generally chuck it away, but it >usually reappears after a while. The Move and Rename folder is generally caused by file sharing, or so I'm told. >I assume it is something created by the finder when I drop things into >my system folder and it suggests where they should go, but perhaps not. >Out of curiosity I'd like to know where this folder comes from and if >there is any fix to stop it being created (or to stop it being seen by >Word) I'd be interested, though it is hardly a problem. I'm not sure how to get Word to stop showing it... -=Alan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!news.cs.brandeis.edu!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!aland From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) Subject: Re: What is Move and Rename? Message-ID: <aland.713645791@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu Organization: As little as possible References: <1992Aug10.183519.8163@vax.oxford.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:56:31 GMT Lines: 22