this one can help hard disk drive users speedup their use. As noted above, when a document or application is moved to a disk drive (hard or floppy), information about them is stored in the Desktop file. Similarly, information you add in the comment blocks of "Get Info" dialog boxes are stored into the Desktop file. If files are removed by some utility other than the Finder, these comments may not be deleted. Also, information allowing the Finder to locate each application on a disk is stored in the Desktop file. If applications are deleted by a program other than the Finder this data may remain in the Desktop file even though it is no longer of any use. And if an application is downloaded, or copied to a disk by some utility other than the Finder,
the Desktop may not be updated to show its location, causing the Finder a little delay in
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locating it.
Over time, a disk which has had had many activities such as those above will accumulate a lot of wasted (and wrong) information. The Desktop file can grow pretty large (on my 80 MEG hard disk drive it was over 175K), taking up unneeded disk space. Ever notice how some empty (but formatted) disks have more available space than others? This is because some have wasted information in their Desktop files. Further, on hard disk drives, because the Desktop file gets so large, or does not have needed information, it will begin to take the Finder perceptibly longer to find the information it needs. You can try rebuilding the