On 27/2/04, STAN DA MAN disgorged:

>       c. Using OS9.x and earlier Mac systems, you periodically 
>need to do something called "cleaning the desktop folder." 
>Think of it like flushing the cache on a web browser. To do 
>this on the Mac, you hold down a special key combination 
>during start-up. I never remember the combination - check 
>the help menu.

Yup, that's Command + Option on startup until a window asks 'Do you want
to rebuild the desktop'? then release and click yes. It asks for each HD
and each partition.

BTW cheers Stan :-)


Cheers,
  Cotty


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