Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!apple!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Loosing files using WB Summary: Happens to me on the Amiga-Plus disks Keywords: Drawer Icon Message-ID: <523@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Date: 19 Aug 89 23:48:09 GMT References: <21914@louie.udel.EDU> <201@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA Lines: 29 In article <201@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> rjtatz@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Robert J. Tatz) writes: >I used a friend's 2000 w/hard drive. When I clicked once on >a drawer icon and moved it one pixel it DISAPPEARED. It jumped >into another directory whose icon was two icons directly above it. >I know it sounds strange, but it was repeatable although it had to >be done just right. He nearly killed me when it first disappeared, >but everything was there - I just moved the drawer back out. You didn't say which disk or what type of icons were giving you problems, but it was probably the "Chest of Drawers" icons created by Gary Roseman. They are on the 2nd and 3rd disks of Antic's Amiga-Plus magazine. All of their drawer icons touch each other when stacked vertically. (Gary must have worked very hard to get those icons to work - they confuse Workbench to the point where it puts the label of the drawer INSIDE the rectange that encloses the image.) Anyway, if you are double clicking on the bottom drawer and the mouse happens move even one pixel up while the button is down, POOF! Workbench thinks you have moved the icon a large vertical distance, and puts it inside the drawer two rows above it. If nothing else, you can find the missing drawer by searching in every drawer on the disk. I plan to NOT use those icons because of this problem. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"