[WinMac] Re: Finder Prefs no-no

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:42:30 -0500

        Kurt:

        Naughty, naughty! NEVER back up (or more accurately, restore) the Finder
Preferences file... Any changes and all hell breaks loose. Just trash the
old Finder Preferences file and let the MacOS build a new one from scratch
each time. Even if you do succeed in restoring the Finder Preferences, you
*still* have to reboot since the file is always locked for exclusive use...

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 09:30 AM 2/18/99 -0700, Kurt wrote:
>jhorak wrote:

        [cut]

>Q3) "How do you respond to the problem... 'finder preferences need repair-
>replace with originals or
>other individual preferences'?"
>

        [cut]

>A3) Simply trash the Finder preferences. A new default one will be created
(as
>with all preferences). Afterward, I would tweek the Finder prefs (General
>Controls, Keyboard, etc.) to your liking, back it up, and... bah, bah, bah.
>
>
>Regards,
> Kurt Witowski
>
>
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