I can't resist either. I must bring closure to part of this thread, just in case somebody has a time machine accident or stumbles into a worm-hole and finds themself back in 1986. :-)
There were several ways to eject a disk on a Mac. 1) Select the disk icon and choose Put Away. 2) Select the disk and choose Command-e or Eject. (Newer Finder versions) 3) Press Command-Shift-1. 4) Drag the icon to the trash. If the normal methods weren't working, you would just hold down the mouse button when you started up the computer. The paper clip was a last resort for cases like a dead power supply. If a disk got corrupted, the usual problem was a corrupted "desktop" file. That's the hidden file with the disk content database. To rebuild this file, you held down the Command (pretzel) and Option keys when you inserted the disk. You'd be asked if you wanted to rebuild the desktop file. Click OK, and most of the time you were back in business. It goes to Jeremy's point -- to get the best results from a tool, you need to learn as much about it as you can. E-mail lists like this help make that easier today than it was in 1986. Steve _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
