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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 409596" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>Oh, oh. I should have explained what "desktop files" means.</p><p></p><p>It's an invisible database that keeps track of the icons and the icons' associated applications. These icons are the reason why suffixes after the document names are not required.</p><p></p><p>For instance, the database matches the document's QuickTime icon and its creator code (visible with the help of another app) with the QuickTime application, and the computer starts the QuickTime app when a QuickTime document is clicked.</p><p></p><p>The database grows with each new document, and it gets so overstuffed that corruptions occur, including the machine starting the wrong apps.</p><p></p><p>"Rebuilding the desktop" refers to the process of eliminating from the database those pathways to documents that no longer exist, and a general culling of problem database files. It has nothing to do with "real" files that may be on the desktop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 409596, member: 3889"] Oh, oh. I should have explained what "desktop files" means. It's an invisible database that keeps track of the icons and the icons' associated applications. These icons are the reason why suffixes after the document names are not required. For instance, the database matches the document's QuickTime icon and its creator code (visible with the help of another app) with the QuickTime application, and the computer starts the QuickTime app when a QuickTime document is clicked. The database grows with each new document, and it gets so overstuffed that corruptions occur, including the machine starting the wrong apps. "Rebuilding the desktop" refers to the process of eliminating from the database those pathways to documents that no longer exist, and a general culling of problem database files. It has nothing to do with "real" files that may be on the desktop. [/QUOTE]
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