desktop icons on 3.9

[Will-i-am]

I already got the answer to this question once and promptly forgot to write it down. I think I tossed it into another thread as an afterthought. Dang. Okay, I installed 3.9 on my A4000D just fine and am now installing all my graphics progs. I noticed that the icon for my Work: partition is different from my Workbench: partition...ie UGLY, like a floppy icon. I want to copy the Workbench: icon as Work: or otherwise get nice matching icons. I used to know how to do this at the command line and thanks to modern medicine don't have much short term memory...did you knnow that neurontin not only causes suicidal tendencies in the depressed, but also can cause severe memory problems? Nice for pain, bad for memory. What do I do to get a good icon for my Work: partition? Thanks!!

[golem]

The way I do it is to go into a program like Dopus and copy the disk.info file from your Sys partition to your work partition. Or if you're feeling typey you can do it from the shell;

sYS:> copy disk.info Work:

[Thomas]

The OS3.9 way of doing this is to click the ugly icon once, choose Icon -> Information from the menu and drag a nice icon into the window, then click on save. This way tooltypes and window positions are preserved.

Bye,
Thomas

[golem]

Hey Thomas thats cool. Never knew that - I've been retyping in my tooltypes and everything!
Thanks

[leirbag28]

Hey Will I am,   are you really Will?  :-)

I use CopyNewIcon from the New Icons package. It seems like the most correct way to do it............but I like what one of the guys suggested.............to click on the icon once...........then select info from the menu and drop an icon................quite neat...........never knew that.

[Vincent]

There's also CopyIcon in the Contribution drawer of OS3.9 :-)

[Will-i-am]

Okay, this time I print the dang instructions! Thanks folks, for the good info. And yes, I am "Will"... that's why I said Will-I-Am. I found that William is a very popular name whereas Will is less common and Will-i-am even less so. Here's a slightly different os 3.9 query that I developed while wrestling with my tower: Howcum when I first install from the CD I can't change the preferences, in fact I can't even get preferences to open? I have to go into Opus and copy a whole lot of stuff from the CD over to the HD. I can't get Screenmode to open, Overscan...the whole lot of progs in the Prefs directory won't respond until I essentially copy all of Workbench from the CD to the HD manually. Seems like a cummy way to install an OS.

[adolescent]

@Will

That's not normal.  After installing OS3.9 you should be able to just reboot and go.  No other copying is needed.  Did you install from the boot floppy?  Were there any errors during the install?

[Will-i-am]

No errors that I noticed...no prompts, no bad blocks, nuthin. In point of fact I was finally able to get "screenmode" to work only by copying it from a 3.1 WB! I tried copying some of the other Prefs progs from the CD to the HD and they bellied up as well until I brought them over from the 3.1 floppy. So I guess at this point I have sort of a mix of 3.1 and 3.9 things going. Last time I did this I was able to just pull things off the 3.9 CD and I thought this time it would work again, but when I systematically tried to open all of the various programs I ran into this problem. Curious. The ones that don't work give me the message "Program failed (error #80000004)..." This happens to Workbench,& Deficons...CacheCDFS gives me a window with nothing in it and no close gadget or minimize....I just pull it out of the way....and Asl doesn't do a darn thing. Actually not sure what it does anyway. 8-) So, should I try to re-install the OS and see what happens this time? Or what about the Boingball download? Does that do anything in the way of fixing problems like this? That error number has gotta mean something, right? Geez I am tired of not being able to do something as simple as install an os! I do fine with everything up to 3.1 and then it falls apart. Oh yeah, Dopus fails to run as well....sigh. Maybe I'll go play with my A2000. It's running OS 2.1 and seems happy as a clam. I'm sure it's a simple thing I've overlooked....

[Vincent]

I'd try the BoingBag#1 update - I'm pretty sure that updated some of the prefs programs.

It is a bit of a strange problem.

Oh, ASL is a file requester that you can customise, any app that opens an ASL requester will open it to the conditions you saved in the prefs.  Just a pity that a good few programs don't use it :-(

[Thomas]

Did you have one of ClassAct, CAPrefs, NewIcons and/or DefIcons installed on the partition you updated to OS3.9 ? All these are incompatible to OS3.9 and should be removed prior to installation.

You should try to format the partition and do a full installation. Or if you don't mind the extra work you might try a full installation over the existing first.

Bye,
Thomas

[Will-i-am]

I started with a fresh hard drive, did a full format, installed os 3.1 and idefix to get the cd drive working and then installed os 3.9 from the cd I had purchased from Softhut this summer. One possible problem occured to me today.... the tower uses a Cyberstorm 060/ppc. I installed the os 3.1 software from  my friend who sent me the tower and not the Phase 5 software because, in part, the install disk had a note scribbled on it indicating it was modified with the '060 library. I figured it was the OS the tower had arrived with so it would probably run the Cyberstorm. (Why the original HD is not being used is another story...) I suppose that the 3.1 software might have left something "different" behind that the OS 3.9 didn't remove...? or the Phase 5 stuff being not there might somehow interfere with Preferences? The trouble with that thinking is how would I know and why wouldn't the 3.9 stuff override the 3.1 legacy software? Maybe I should install the Phase 5 software and see what happens. The desktop model with 3.9 on it runs mostly fine and IT only has an '040 board. Hmmmm. Sounds like it has to do with the Cyberstorm, nes pa? Man, I hate to start all over again. Everytime I get this thing running right I find a problem or create a problem and then start all over again. I still can't make the damn thing boot with more than one hard drive attached! Yeah, I'm that incompetent. But I am a very good sculptor and I build very nice wood fired kilns, so I got that low tech stuff going for me.... 8-)