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Title: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on July 31, 2007, 08:09:26 PM

What would cause the 'Leave Out' command not to work?

Thanks,
Steve

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: meega on July 31, 2007, 09:18:49 PM

Which version of the OS are you running?

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Bamiga2002 on July 31, 2007, 09:43:30 PM

Forget the standard "leave out" -option, use IconLink (http://aminet.net/search?query=iconlink) instead, it's good.

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: murple on July 31, 2007, 10:00:30 PM

That IconLink sounds pretty useful, thanks.

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on July 31, 2007, 10:28:55 PM

I'm using WB3.1

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: meega on July 31, 2007, 10:43:18 PM

Are they actually real genuine icons, as in a file on disk called "something.info" or are they pseudo-icons created by the Show All Files menu option?

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on July 31, 2007, 10:59:50 PM

Real .info icons.  Also, I'm using Scalos V1.2 and have it set as a Backdrop, if that matters.

Steve

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on July 31, 2007, 11:02:01 PM

Thanks, I've downloaded that and am going to check it out.  :-)

Steve

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: meega on July 31, 2007, 11:04:25 PM

Quote

Ranthalion wrote:
Real .info icons.  Also, I'm using Scalos V1.2 and have it set as a Backdrop, if that matters.

Steve

As you are not using Workbench itself, I can offer no more help.

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Vulture on July 31, 2007, 11:27:41 PM

try to snapshot the icon after leaving it out and see if that helps.

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on July 31, 2007, 11:29:31 PM

Already tried to snapshot, but alas, after I rebooted, they were back in the usual drawer.

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Piru on July 31, 2007, 11:33:37 PM

Probably a Scalos bug.

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on August 01, 2007, 02:31:04 AM

Oh, icky.  It requires 3.5 or above.  I only have 3.1

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on August 01, 2007, 05:09:30 AM

I found out that it has something to do with the drawers being on my 'Work:' partition.  None of the drawers on it can be 'left out'...

The drawers in my 'System:' partition work fine.  They can all be 'left out'.

Baffled,
Steve :-?

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Mark on August 01, 2007, 09:29:40 AM

Try it on a normal Workbench without Scalos.  If it still doesn't work then open a shell and type 'info'.  Check what status is shown for work:  Read/Write, Read Only, Unvalidated, Validating etc.  If it is Read/Write then type 'list work:.backdrop'.  Make sure the file has the r (read) w (write) and d (delete) bits set.

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on August 01, 2007, 05:40:07 PM

Quote

Mark wrote:
Try it on a normal Workbench without Scalos.  If it still doesn't work then open a shell and type 'info'.  Check what status is shown for work:  Read/Write, Read Only, Unvalidated, Validating etc.  If it is Read/Write then type 'list work:.backdrop'.  Make sure the file has the r (read) w (write) and d (delete) bits set.

Yep, looks like everything checks out there.

Anything else to check?

Thanks,
Steve

Title: Re: Leaving out icons problem...
Post by: Anonymous MOS on August 01, 2007, 05:42:48 PM

Ahh...  I fixed it.  I just renamed the old .backdrop file so the system would create a new one, and now all my drawers can be 'left out'.

Thanks guys,
Steve