Subject: Re: magic routing tip
Path: lobby!newstf02.news.aol.com!audrey05.news.aol.com!not-for-mail
From: oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Lines: 39
NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder06.news.aol.com
X-Admin: news@aol.com
Date: 20 Oct 1999 16:35:15 GMT
References: <380D8452.C565273E@swbell.net>
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
Message-ID: <19991020123515.21850.00000088@ng-cq1.aol.com>



>
>"L. Cornelio" writes ...
>> 
>> ok, maybe you all knew this, but I just found out leafing through an old
>> GS+
>> 
>> Leaving your system folder on the desktop solves the problem, but there is
>> another way:
>> just change the aux type of the system folder to $00000002
>> 
>> It's that easy!
>> 
>> feel free to share other arcana......
> ....
>
>     Okay, except ... what problem does this tip solve?
>
>
>Rubywand
>


This has to do with "magic routing", the ability for the Finder
to correctly place into the proper folder any System files that
were dragged to the System folder. If your System folder is in 
the main directory of your hard drive boot partition, if you 
drag afile there to copy it to your system it only works 
correctly for the first file copied. Ant additional files are
only placed inside the System folder, not where they need to be.
This means that if you are coping a bunch of files such as fonts
or drivers only one will make it to the proper folder. All the 
others will only be in the System folder. This bug got by the 
programers because they always had the their System folder on 
the Desktop instead of in the hard drive partition. Magic Routing 
works properly if the System folder is on the Desktop. The 
patch Louis refers to makes it work properly with the System 
folder left in the hard drive partition.