Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpdslab!hpdstma!dave From: dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: What is the Desktop file? Message-ID: <440008@hpdstma.HP.COM> Date: 9 May 88 23:05:50 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard TCG Tech marketing, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 18 Well... I've been hearing alot about the "desktop" file and I have searched high and low to find out exactly what it does and how I can manipulate it... and come up with nothing! Anyway, I'm breaking down and asking the net if they could give me some info on it: What does it do? What can you do to it without some sort of custom program to manipulate it? And most of all, HOW DO YOU DELETE HIDDEN FILES?? Besides desktop. there is another hidden file in my System folder that I'm not sure what it's for (also, I can't remember the name right now and I'm at work) but I know it's there because I can "see" it with ResEdit. How does one deal with these ghostly apparitions that are showing up in my system folder?? Thansk for Gdansk in advance, Dave