Re: the annoying case of the disappearing custom icons
- From: The Translucent Amoebae <transamoebae@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:10:08 -0700
On Aug 31, 1:38 pm, heron stone <hero...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1188590898.517151.30...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
The Translucent Amoebae <transamoe...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 30, 9:33 pm, heron stone <hero...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's becoming really annoying now.
Is it something I'm doing wrong?
Some setting i missed?
What do i have to do to make my custom icons stick
to the files i stick them on.
Some times they stick for a day.
Sometimes for a few days.
Some seem to stick for good.
I set some icons this morning... tonight, they
have reverted back to their default icons AGAIN
(TextEdit in this case)
Some aspects of my interactions with my mac depend
heavily on visual recognition of files on a timely
basis.
The problem is... it's unreliable and that makes
designing a graphic interface in the finder way
more difficult than it needs to be.
Can anyone help me solve this problem?
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HA! i've had the same problem and "I" knowing what you are talking
about, will help you...!!!
HA HA HA --- i am the smart one NOW...!!!
The problem is that you're removing the .rtf suffix, which; because
the Mac is So Stupid, becomes confused and lashes out at you by
erasing the icon...STUPID VENGEFUL MACINTOSH...!!! BAD MACINTOSH...BAD
BAD...!!!
The way to work around this is to create an alias of the document,
then hide the original away somewhere, so you only have to look at the
alias with the nice clean name under it...!
WRONG
the .rtf extension is there
try again dumb ass
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Well; it seems to have worked in my case, the document that i was
having problems with, is now 'fixed' after i tried this alias trick...
HOWEVER; one curious thing-- when i tried to Save As... the document
to make a new copy of it, it said that ( i really should have written
this down...!!! ) that the document had been corrupted or changed by
ANOTHER PROGRAM that did something to it...???
So after that, i opened another TextEdit Document and Copied and
Pasted the contents of the 1st Document into the new 2nd one... SO
that may well be what actually fixed it...??? i DID say that when i
suggested the .rft phenomena, i thought that that was hokey...
i've never seen this sort of thing happen before, and i would think
that The Mac would identify documents and files by 'hidden' tags
within the documents code...??? The .rtf; i would think, is just there
for decoration-- or at least it SHOULD BE... That sounds like PURE MS
craziness to me...???
One other quirky thing happened today, and that was; i Dragged and
Dropped a chunk of Text onto my desktop and it became a text file, as
i expected it to, but it surprised me ( Gawd i hate computers ) that
it WASN'T any kind of normal text file... it wouldn't allow me to open
it with TextEdit or iPage and i couldn't even highlight and copy the
text out of it... When it was open, i couldn't change the size of the
type or the type font, and the application that was active, was
Finder...??? That's just not right...
And i'm also sick of you Mac Fanatics defending Apple no matter how
stupid the OSX is or their applications are in general... This
attitude is undoubtedly exactly WHY it is still so stupid...!!!
.
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