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From: chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow)
Subject: Re: Good Stuff & Bad Stuff about System 7
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References: <1991May21.035502.10050@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <12151@claris.com>
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 21:31:24 GMT

In article <12151@claris.com> drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) writes:
.
..   I've
.. also seen the blobish watch cursor occasionally...just seems to happen at
.. random times...(I assume that some resource is being purged prematurely
.. to make space for something else).
....
.. On problem I do seem to have is random losing of one or two icons.  I mean one
.. time they're there...the next they're not.  Even if I rebuild the desktop they
.. don't reappear.  But later on...they come back.  I've seen this happen on
.. a SE and a Mac II
.
.You stated elsewhere that you had been running 7.0b4.  You can correct the
.random cursor nastiness and disappearing icons by running the new Disk First
.Aid against your hard disk.  There was a problem in some of the earlier
.betas that could produce the effects you've seen as a side-effect.
.
Well, I've never ran any version of System 7.0 under than the official 
release and I still get the occasional trashed watch cursor. Furthermore, 
some of my application icons (e.g.: Smart Alarms) which worked find on a system
6.0.7 come up as generic icons under System 7.0. And, yes, I did run Disk
First Aid and still get the same results.

Christopher Chow
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