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Re: Setting Finder window background picture
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Re: Setting Finder window background picture


  • Subject: Re: Setting Finder window background picture
  • From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:35:29 +0000

On 21 Feb 2004, at 8.57 pm, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

This is indeed a puzzle.

Could it be hidden in the boot blocks?

I've wondered about this too. Is there any way to track what happens when a folder's background image is set in the view options palette? It's clearly something at system level, as custom folder view settings are 'user-agnostic', and it's clearly just a pointer of some kind (rather than an image stored in an invisible '.background' folder), and not cached in RAM or anywhere else because blitzing the original image instantly removes it from the folder window it was assigned to.

This must mean that whenever a folder is opened (or, more accurately, whenever a folder is targetted in a Finder window) the Finder retrieves info from somewhere (a preference file?) about the background settings and probably other view options for that folder. I'd be thrashing around in the dark if I went looking for the file containing that info, but perhaps someone with better-adapted eyes could find it.


Nick
pp Mr Tea
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 >Setting Finder window background picture (From: Mark Alldritt <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Setting Finder window background picture (From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Setting Finder window background picture (From: Graff <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Setting Finder window background picture (From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>)

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