On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Thomas O. Coleman wrote:
The desktop DB isn't analogous, as it's based on application types and *can* be rebuilt if damaged -- it does this by (IIRC) querying all resident apps and asking them for information on filetypes they can handle. If your registry is damaged you're completely hosed. :(WTHM spake thus:There is nothing on Mac, any OS version, that is like the Windows Registry.Except maybe the desktop, which needs to be rebuilt when apps/docs lose their associated icons (gets corrupt)...
-- WthmO
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