| From: | Jörg Strohmayer |
| Date: | 25 Oct 2000 at 23:25:01 |
| Subject: | Re: AOS35: RE: OS 3.0 to 3.5 |
Richard Mattsson <richard@cloudnet.com> wrote:
> From: "Sheppard, Richard" <rsheppard@healthlink.on.ca>
>> ...the OS3.5 install spends a lot of time searching your entire
>> hard disk for any system icons it wants to "update". I had a directory
>> called Storage/IconFile in which I had collected interesting icons
>> over the years. The update overwrote any standard ones (disk.info,
>> system.info, etc) it found there.
> Yech! That was the thing which made up my mind. Some people reported an
> agonizingly long wait for the 3.5 install to do a 'search and destroy'
> on their entire system partition, looking for old icons. Sounds like a
> Windows install! ;-)
It doesn't replace any custom icons (I had thousends of NewIcons on my
SYS: Partition, none of them was changes), only system icons.
SYS:Storage is a system directory, of course it changes icons in that
directoy ...