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Title: OK, that wasn't the right way. What is?
Post by: yock1960 on December 17, 2006, 11:46:46 PM

Amiga newbie here. I've just got my mouse so I'm starting to do a little more....and getting into more trouble!

I have (had) a disk that I have a few utilities on (A500 1MB, 1 floppy, WB 1.3) and when I open it, some of the icons overlap. I know that you can use 'cleanup' to re-arrange them, however, that is apparently temporary because the next time I open the disk, they overlap again! So, I had the idea of doing an info on the disk and saving it, thinking that maybe the state of the icon arrangement might be saved. That disk doesn't work anymore! So, the question is, is there a way to save the icon arrangement of a disk?

Thanks!

Title: Re: OK, that wasn't the right way. What is?
Post by: alx on December 18, 2006, 12:18:06 AM

Just get the icons lined up how you want then go to the "Window" menu and go to "Snapshot", "All".  It's been a while since I've used a 1.x machine but from what I recall it's identical on all releases.

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Or select the icons to snapshot and use the "Snapshot" command from the "Icons" menu to only hold those in place, and not the position of anything else.

Title: Re: OK, that wasn't the right way. What is?
Post by: TheMud on December 18, 2006, 12:23:12 AM

Its just like that :)

Title: Re: OK, that wasn't the right way. What is?
Post by: yock1960 on December 18, 2006, 01:12:13 AM

You guys got me close enough to break down and look in my intro to the A500 book. Snapshot saves the position of the 'selected' icons. Got it now!