Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!ames!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!bill From: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Preferences, help? Keywords: Preferences on JH0: Message-ID: <4833@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 21:00:22 GMT References: <3173@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 40 In article <3173@utastro.UUCP> dhines@utastro.UUCP (Dean Hines) writes: > >I'm having problems with my preferences setup. I have Preferences set for an >Epson printer on my Workbench disk, and also on my harddrive JH0:. >However, when I get ready to print something, the preferences on JH0: has >been reset to the default settings. If I enter Preferences on JH0:, change >to Epson, and save, everything works fine. BUT the next time I reboot, >the Preferences on the harddrive get reset. > >This isn't a major problem, but it can sure be frustrating. Has anyone else >had this problem, or am I just doing something stupid? Any help would be >greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance... > This is a common misunderstanding in harddrive systems that are booted from a floppy. When the system boots the preferences are loaded from the file devs:system-configuration. At boot time devs: is really df0:devs. However, after boot, most systems assign sys: devs: and other logical directorys to the harddrive so that devs: is really dh0:devs. When you run preferences from the harddrive and save, you are saving to the file devs:system-configuration which is really dh0:devs/system-configuration and not df0:devs/system-configuration, which is what you want. The answer is to copy the system-configuration file from the harddrive to the floppy. I have set up my prefernces icon to execute an xicon script that performs this copy EVERY time I exit preferences. Hope this helps. BK -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bill Koester (CATS) >>Commodore Amiga Technical Support<< Commodore International Ltd. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!bill PHONE (215) 431-9355 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The official word, is NO. I am therefore going anyway! Kirk - Star Trek IV Pleese desrigard eny spealing airors!!!!!!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=