Odds & Ends: Warning re Command-drag;

WindowShade & Project Builder; InDesign; Toast install fix Using Command-drag to move files: a warning! Regarding the recent tip on using a Command-drag to move rather than copy an item to a different volume, Jan Steinman offers this caution: If any of the files being moved has a problem - resulting in the error box that asks if you want to Stop or Continue - and you get you choose to Continue, that file and all subsequent ones will not be copied, but will be deleted from the source volume. Jan adds: "The source file is hard-erased, not merely placed in the Trash, so it is unlikely you will be able to recover it - unless you have a back-up."

Note: If the problem is a read permissions error, this issue should not occur. At least when we tried it, we got the message that said: "Do you want to copy the items you can't read?' We said OK. But since we could not read anything, nothing was copied, moved or deleted.

WindowShade and Project Builder conflict? Todd Hunter discovered a conflict between WindowShade X 1.5 and Project Builder 1.1.1 (the December 2001 release). He writes: "With WindowShade active, launch Project Builder and try to debug a Carbon app. When the debugger attempts to execute a WaitNextEvent or RunApplicationEventLoop function call, the debugger immediately crashes and produces the following error: Program received signal: "EXC_BAD_ACCESS". This crash occurs with any Carbon app being debugged with Project Builder. WindowShade X does not interfere with Cocoa apps that are being debugged with Project Builder nor does WindowShade X interfere with Carbon apps that are being debugged with CodeWarrior (v4.2.6 Build 832)."

InDesign crash on launch fix? A reader suggests: "If InDesign 2.0 on OS X crashes during startup, trash the ID2 prefs in Users/(username)/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 2.0." More generally, trashing prefs is a good thing to try for similar problems with almost any application.

Toast fix See the item on today's main page for information about an update to Toast Titanium 5.1.2 that fixes install problems.