Finder rebuilding of desktop.

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From: Christopher Chow
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1987 22:49

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I try out and throw out alot of public domain/shareware stuff on my hard
disk.  Very often these programs have their own icons, so my desktop file
gets bloated up with unnecessary icons.  My solution to this problem is to
periodicly rebuild the desktop from the finder by using the <cmd><opt> while
returning to the finder.

Unfortuantely, this also erases all the data I might have put in the
get-info boxes.  My question to Apple (and other net people) is:

	Do you think the finder ought to be modified so that you can 
	purge icons from your desktop?  I understand that there are cases
	when you might have to rebuild the desktop from scratch and throw 
	out all the get-info comments.  Perhaps we could get an 
	"Clean up desktop" entry on the "Special" menu to remove unneeded
	icons and leave rebuilding the desktop at <cmd><opt>.

What do you think?

Christopher Chow
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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Finder rebuilding of desktop.
Message-ID: <1398@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 18:49:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1398
Posted: Mon Jun 15 18:49:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 06:11:46 EDT
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: desktop, icons, get-info
Summary: maybe we should add "clean up desktop" to the finder