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Strange side affects
Authored by: jecwobble on Jan 07, '04 10:37:31AM

I tried this hint and it appears to have cleaned up my "Open with" context menu. But a strange thing happened afterward that may or may not have been related. I have an external FireWire drive mounted. As some of you know, this shows up on your desktop even when your Finder preferences are set to not display dirves in 10.3. You can remove it from the desktop by also not displaying CDs, DVDs and iPods, which I chose not to do- I lived with it on my desktop even though I don't want it there.

But immediately after using this hint, my drive disappeared from my desktop. It's still visible in the left-hand portion of my Finder windows and I can access it from there (which I much prefer). But no matter what Finder preferences I set, it never shows up on my desktop. I've rebooted twice and it still won't show up.

Not a bad thing in my case, but a little alarming nontheless. Has anyone else experienced this behavior after using this hint?



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