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Article #12427The case of the disappearing TrashCan...
From: Cs471s07
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 1990 10:39
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 1990 10:39
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My Trash can and floppy disk icons keep disappearing under the carpet.
If a window from one of my applications covers the Trash Can or my
HD icon or floppy disk icon (I'm running under multi-finder) and then I
move the window out of the way, the icons are gone!
They stay invisible even if I quit the application, or click back to the
finder.
The items are still there of course, I just click around in the area and
the icon pops up again, but it's a pain going fishing all the time.
One...
============================
| +------------+ [] |
| | | HD |
| | | |
| | | |
| | +---------+ |
| +------| | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| +---------+ O |
(__________________________)
Two...
============================
| +------------+ [] |
| | | HD |
| | | |
| | | |
| | +---------+ |
| +-----------| | |
Move | | | |
Window | ==> | | |
| | | |
| +---------+ |
(__________________________)
Three...
============================
| +------------+ [] |
| | | HD |
| | | |
| | | |
| | +---------+ |
| +------| | |
| | | |
Voila! | +---------+ |
Trashcan gone! | |
| |
(__________________________)
1. Is there a fix?
2. Why does this happen?
--
Just a plain ole cs student.
This never fails: cs471s07@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uhccux!cs471s07 From: cs471s07@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Cs471s07) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: The case of the disappearing TrashCan... Message-ID: <8025@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 2 Jun 90 10:39:58 GMT Reply-To: cs471s07@uhccux.UUCP (Cs471s07) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 63