Apple HDBackup Zaps Applications

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From: Mark Kilby
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 16:11

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I've had my Mac SE/20 for over a year now and like any smart computer user
I regularly back up my hard disk.  Since I'm a student on a budget, I use 
Apple's HDBackup (v1.1?).  Well, I read this neato little blurb in MacWorld
(I believe it was Nov 89) about how to repartition your Apple HD20 to get 
more than 20Meg out of the hard disk.  Drooling over this prospect, I backed
up the hard disk, repartitioned it according to the article, and then restored
the files from my backup floppies to the HD.  Lo and behold, all the applications (Word 4.0, SuperPaint, etc.) had been changed to documents and all icons
(both document and application files) had been replaced by the generic document
icon.  When replacing the zapped Word 4.0 with a copy from my master floppy,
all the documents I had previously created with Word had regained their Word
icons.

SO WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

After replacing all my applications, everything is fine now but I would 
prefer to avoid a repeat performance.  Is this a case of RTFM (i.e. Apple
Macintosh Utilities manual) that I missed or has someone else blameless
stubbledross this problem?

My configuration is as follows:

	Mac SE
	HD20 (internal)
	800k floppy (internal)
	System 6.0.2
	Various INITs

E-mail or postings are fine.
Thanks in advance.

Mark C. Kilby
mck@beach.cis.ufl.edu

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