At 08:22 -0600 15/10/02, Bill McQuary wrote: >John Brownie wrote: > >"I am not clear about the fact that my NW stationary is blank and >doesn't show the regular NW icon face."
Actually, that was Raymond. I would have said 'stationery'... >Now that is a horse of a different color; maybe there are two horses here. > >When Raymond started this topic I thought he was writing about an NW >stationary document he created with the NW logo on it. (One can do >that.) John is writing about the Nisus document icons that appear when >one selects Show Catalog from the NW File menu and scrolls through the >catalog to the Stationary Documents folder and then opens the folder. >When John does that he sees generic icons instead of the proper NW >document icons. I have never used the Catalog - it's never seemed to me to be a thing I needed, since most of my work happens in single documents, so I don't need things like searching in multiple files. I was referring to the Finder. As Raymond says elsewhere, all the files in the stationery folder are blank icons, but the type is correct, i.e. if you 'Get Info', it says that it's a Nisus document and that the stationery flag is on. At 13:47 +0200 15/10/02, raymond wrote: >Very strange, but when opening the NW stationery folder, all stationery >icons are blank. >When looking at the folder while holding the cursor on and with the >contextual menu, I see the NW icons as it should be. I don't quite understand what you're doing there to make it work. Bringing up a contextual menu doesn't change anything for me. And back to Bill: >I checked my Stationary Documents folder Aha! A folder of documents that don't move, or a documents folder that doesn't move... :-) >and the NW stationary document >icons display correctly. I use NW 6.0.3 on a Mac G4/450 running Mac OS >9.2. I rebuild my desktop about once a month. > >The only way to correct the generic document icon problem John described >is to rebuild the Desktop. I rebuilt my desktop yesterday by finding the desktop databases, making them visible and putting them in the trash and restarting. This doesn't appear to help, though I haven't checked immediately after a rebuild. >Raymond and John, which version of NW are you running and which version >of the Mac operating system are you running? Like Raymond, I'm using NW 6.5 and Mac OS 9.2.2. I believe that the blank icons problem is specific to NW 6.5. I could poke around with ResEdit to try to see what the problem is, but I don't feel up to it at the moment (a combination of being sick and piles of other work to do). It's not that big a deal for me, since I have access to all my stationery files via either the Essential files menu or the Documents menu. John -- John Brownie Summer Institute of Linguistics, Papua New Guinea On furlough in Kouvola, Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
