2/6/03 2:39 AM micke bystr�m ever-so-carefully typed: >Roger Diggle said: > >>I've found myself wishing that I could open the desktop folder >>in list mode... I'd be able to see what was on my too-crowded >>desktop without collapsing windows... especially when I wanted >>to drag something from the desktop into one of those windows. >>Or perhaps I dropped something too close to the edge of the >>screen and the finder placed it - hidden - off the edge. >> >>It would also have been handy for me when backing up, since I >>did my back-ups for years without special software. Since the >>desktop folder is treated specially by the finder, backing up >>and restoring items on the desktop was sometimes sketchy. I >>think it would be great if the desktop folder was just treated >>as a normal folder, except for its special purpose. > >It is treated like a normal folder. You can open the desktop folder in >list mode. Also the OS 9 desktop. At least in 10.2. You just won't have >the drives there, because they are not *there*. In reality the desktop >folders are on the drive. When you get the drives on the desktop, the >icons are only sharing space with the files in the desktop folder. For me >that makes sense. What's the problem you have with this concept?
I don't care whether the disks show in the desktop folder or not... you have me confused with someone else. I have opened the desktop folder at times, but not usually the curent one -- one from a backup or something. The current folder is "hidden," of course. And I know that I could still open it, but it's the same level of messing around as taking care of the problem in another way... so that's what I do. I just wish it wasn't hidden, that's all. If it wasn't, it'd be another easily available tool to use. Roger I never let schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
