EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of Colin Shapiro, 07-06-2002:

>Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:
>>........ ever since Aliasses were added to the
>>OS, I've always put aliasses to my harddisks in the Apple Menu.
>>Apple recommends against doing this, but it has always worked.
>
>I've been doing that for years too. One problem I find is that the
>Apple menu seems to "forget" what should be in the hierarchical menus
>from time to time. (Yes, I do rebuild my dektop). I have to open the
>Apple Menu Items folder, drag an item out, then back again, and all
>is fixed. Strange....does that happen to you?

I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but sometimes the HD-aliasses 
stop having hierarchical menus -- i.e. they behave as if the alias 
points to a file instead of a folder.  Deleting the alias and making 
a new one fixes that.  Maybe moving it out of & into the Apple Menu 
folder works equally well.

When having removable media (to reply to another remark in this 
thread) the system can get confused as to which alias points to which 
HD -- so your System partition can suddenly get the hierachical menus 
of your Application partition.  I think the aliasses to HDs are not 
assigned by name but by SCSI (or whatever you use) ID.  So when the 
order/ID of the disks changes, the aliasses get mixed up.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
Omega Art: http://www.ision.nl/users/h/index.html