Duplicate desktop icons

[koshman]

This is probably a really stupid problem - I have 3 boot partitions altogether (ClassicWB, 3.9 and backup) and each of them has some icons on the desktop. When I boot any of them I don't only get the correct dekstop icons for that partition (as in that partition's .backdrop file), but also desktop icons for all the other partitions - e.g. I have 2x identical ClassicWB boot partitions (primary and backup) and when I boot either of them I have  2x CXHandler, 2x Run, 2x Shell etc. icons on the desktop.
How can I prevent that?

[kolla]

You can do magic with softlinks

[Darrin]

I had that problem come up with Classic Workbench too (no idea what I did).

All you need to do is just click on one of the duplicated icons (Run, Draws, Clear RAM and CX Handler in my case) and delete it.

Problem solved.  

[Marcb]

But...

If he deletes the icons wont they be deleted from the other partitions too? :confused:

[Darrin]

But...

If he deletes the icons wont they be deleted from the other partitions too? :confused:

If he's having the problem I had, they're just duplicated on his boot partition(s).

I have almost the same setup as he has.  I boot from a SFS Classic Workbench partition and I also back up the same partition to another bootable partition so if something goes wrong while I'm installing software, etc then I can just copy the backup partition back to the primary.  I did "something" (got knows what) and ended up with 4 duplicated icons on Workbench screen.  I lived with them for ages because I couldn't find out how to get rid of the duplicates or how they were being generated until I decided to try the obvious and delete them (if I screwed up then I could just copy my backup to the primary again).  Deleting them worked.  No probem.

Failing that, he can always yank them back from his recyle bin.

[koshman]

Thanks for suggestions. Interesting - I deleted one set of the icons from my desktop, which also removed the linked files off HDD, but it removed the ones from the active partition. The links still work though, probably using the files on the backup partition. Anyway that's good enough for me although I'm afraid that when I have to restore from the backup partition they will be back duplicated again