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In <885@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM> bj@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Brion Johnson) writes:
>While we are at it, please lets have all "Get Info" contents
>stored in the file, not in the desktop, so that it doesn't
>go away when the desktop has to be rebuilt!


I thought Apple had already announced that they were putting FCMTs
(Finder CoMmenTs) in the actual associated files in 7.0--meaning that
the comments would survive rebuilding the desktop.  I got that
impression from the following Q&A and the subsequent net.discussion:


Q:  How does the Desktop Manager improve performance of
    large disks?
A:  Currently, desktop information (file icons and comments)
                                                   ^^^^^^^^
    is stored in an invisible Desktop file.  Because of the current
                                                            ^^^^^^^
    implementation, there is a limit of approximately 2,000 
    entries in the desktop file and, more importantly, performance
    becomes sluggish long before the maximum number of entries
    is reached.  The new Desktop implementation 
    removes this size restriction and greatly improves
    performance in all cases.


So did I just imagine that it had been made official?  Anybody
from Apple care to comment (Mark?)



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