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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: Tom Robinson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:36:03 +1300

>> 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.

Well if you set a picture for a folder there seems to be a path to that picture stored in the invisible .DS_Store file of the _enclosing_ folder.

i.e. with a folder structure:

~/Desktop/t/t2

If I set a background picture for folder t2, there's a path to that picture stored in the .DS_Store file in folder t.

You may need to quit the Finder for it to flush the change.

Cheers
--
I was told today that if you play a Windows 98 CD backwards, it plays satanic messages. But I reckon thatbs nothingbif you play it forward it installs Windows.
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