🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi.  A discussion concerning the following went over the net a couple
of weeks ago, but I don't remember all of it.  I would appreciate
someone emailing me the results of said discussion.

While trying to do something simple (copy a file from one folder to
another while holding the option key), my machine (2MB SE w/ 40MB HD -
about 2 weeks old), decided to spend an awful long time updating the
desktop file.  After it finished, it seems that the desktop file was now
over 12MB (was 64K).  I looked at the desktop file with ResEdit, and found that
one of the BNDL's had garbage where the ID value is normally kept.  Doing
a Get Info on this bundle, I found that it was taking up over 4MB.  I didn't
feel like trying to track down where the other 8MB went to, so I just rebuilt
the damn file - I didn't *really* need those get info comments anyway.  I
know how to fix the problem (although a little brute force), what I really
want to know is this some sort of known bug?  Why did this happen?

*** Sort of flame in the general direction of Apple ***
Yo Apple!  Don't you think it's about time to redo the desktop file stuff?
How about at least keeping the comments somewhere else?
*** flame off ***

Thanks in advance for all responses.  -- John.


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