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Article #30672Re: spontaneous renaming of Mac files
From: Pierce T. Wetter
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1988 15:22
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1988 15:22
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>she launches an application, the name under the application's icon >changes to a dash (-). She can see this happen in the split-second >before the application's window opens. When she exists the application, > >A second problem is that when she is using Excel, cells which contain >data suddenly change, their data being replaced by dashes (do I detect Her keyboard or mouse is probably tweaked. Have her check that all the mouse and keyboard cables are tight, then open keycaps. Watch the keyboard. Does the dash key flicker occasionally? If so its the keyboard. Click a few times. Does the dash key flicker? Its the mouse (try this with the mouse plugged into the keybard and the back.) Pierce ---------------------------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu Race For Space Grand Prize Winner. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Useless Advice #986: Never sit on a Tack.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!elroy!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: spontaneous renaming of Mac files Message-ID: <7437@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 28 Jul 88 15:22:27 GMT References: <1173@cod.NOSC.MIL> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 17