Snapshot Window vs All - positioning seems temperamental

[paul1981]

Drawers won't snapshot if they have no related .info file (no icon). In such a case window positions of drawers with no .info file will not snapshot either.

[paul1981]

understood....thank you

Correction... disk.info is created when you snapshot the root window if it doesn't already exist, so root window size and position should always snapshot. The same goes for the drive icon... disk.info will be created in order to snapshot the drive icon position.

[paul1981]

Crikey!!! Yes, indeed... argghh :smack:

[paul1981]

I've been meaning to ask this question... what exactly are .info files by themselves - i.e., not something "name".info which I know is an icon for a program or disk or something else.

Thanks.

They're just icons, they lead us to believe they're something more until you try and open them, in which case an error will display on the Workbench titlebar stating it was unable to open such and such file or drawer etc.
Project icons on their own (with no associated file) can be useful though due to the default tool functionality.

If there are .info files there but they're actually not icons then Workbench ignores them (but still hides the .info files). Be careful though, because if you have your datafile called 'myfile' and 'myfile.info' (where myfile.info is just another datafile and not an icon) then if you were to delete 'myfile' through the Workbench GUI it will also delete 'myfile.info'. This certainly happens on OS3.1 or below. I don't know about 3.9. I'm not sure whether to state this is a bug or a feature. Personally I believe it's a bug because if you were to copy 'myfile' through the Workbench GUI it creates 'Copy_of_myfile' but does not copy the .info file (which is correct behaviour).