Re: Select desktop items for a specific volume
Re: Select desktop items for a specific volume
- Subject: Re: Select desktop items for a specific volume
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 19:36:37 -0700
At 16:12 -0400 8/7/2001, Jeremy Reichman wrote:
>
One thing that has annoyed me over the years is the difficulty in selecting
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and doing anything with only those items on the desktop of a specific
>
volume. Now, my frustration has moved towards my inability to write a script
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that does this for me.
If you have a network, this is all done for you: go to "the other"
machine, and mount the volumes from the machine you're dealing with. Each
volume's folder as mounted contains a visible "Desktop Folder" folder, with
that volume's contribution to the visible desktop (in proper relative
location).
Mac OS X provides a variation on this theme in which only one machine is
needed and all the work is already done. So the real answer is... (but not
for everyone).
Otherwise, it's actually fairly easy, albeit dramatic and slow:
Unmount all the other volumes. Now gather up the desktop stuff from the
startup volume and hide it in a folder with a suitable name (eg "Clutter
from xxx").
Reboot, and unmount all but one other volume. Repeat. Eventually, you
have folders for each volume, neatly labelled. If you do the gathering
carefully, you can put everything back in the same position it came from on
the desktop...watch out for "snap to grid" and also undersized folder
windows.
--John (been there; done that...but I only have two volumes these
days...and not more than 4 ever...and I'm typing this on Mac OS X.)
--
John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA