Snap to grid... or rather, not.

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3 total messages Started by Peter Ceresole Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:00

#1771

Author: Peter Ceresole
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:00

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On my 7500/100, running sys 7.5.2, I find that in the "Views" control
panel, the "always snap to grid" box won't stay checked at restart.

I can check it, and it works. If I close the Control Panel and reopen it,
it's still checked. But after a restart it's unchecked. It has only started
to do this today.

The PRAM battery is fine (changed only last week). The only significant
change is that I installed IE4 (going nicely, thank you) three days ago,
but I'm pretty certain that this odd behaviour didn't start then.  

The only result so far is that the Wastebasket comes up in a slightly
different position. Not a catastrophe; just inaesthetic. But why should it
do that?  

-- 
Peter

Re: Snap to grid... or rather, not.

#1773

Author: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:00

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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On my 7500/100, running sys 7.5.2, I find that in the "Views" control
> panel, the "always snap to grid" box won't stay checked at restart.
[snip]
> The only result so far is that the Wastebasket comes up in a slightly
> different position. Not a catastrophe; just inaesthetic. But why should it
> do that?  

God knows - I'd suspect that a prefs file or something has been
corrupted.  Have you tried trashing any likely looking prefs files,
and/or zapping the PRAM?  (using TechTool so you don't lose hours in use
etc. info).  You might also try the Norton Disk Doctor thing to see if
there's any lurking disc faults and/or corrupted files kicking around.

Rowland.

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Re: Snap to grid... or rather, not.

#1774

Author: Peter Ceresole
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 00:00

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In article <1d4ggyy.18x4w6k1bvk7poN@p60.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and wrote:

>> The only result so far is that the Wastebasket comes up in a slightly
>> different position. Not a catastrophe; just inaesthetic. But why should it
>> do that?  
>
>God knows - I'd suspect that a prefs file or something has been
>corrupted.

You are absolutely right. Before I went out to dinner last night I did what
I should have done first and ran NDD over it. The Finder prefs file had a
corrupted resource fork. I replaced it from backup and it's all fine again.

Thanks for that... Fascinating how things fail in these subtle ways... 

-- 
Peter

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