[X-Newbies] New HD weirdness? Mail problem too

[Mark Taintor]

On Friday, August 18, 2006, at 01:29  PM, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 12:24 AM -0500 8/12/06, Mark Taintor wrote:
>> I just installed a new hard drive in my G4/533/10.2.8. Don't know if 
>> this makes any difference or not: the new drive is set to the slave 
>> position, but I have it set to be the startup drive. I made a clone 
>> of my original drive using Superduper. Everything seems to be fine, 
>> except for the fact that when I click on an item in the dock to open 
>> a new program, it opens with an additional icon down at the "far" end 
>> of the dock and the little black triangle that's under open programs 
>> is under the new additional icon rather than the original icon that 
>> "permanently" resides in the dock. Any idea what's going on and how 
>> to change it back?
>
> You wouldn't happen to have the old drive still connected, would you? 
> So that there are two drives being seen by the machine?
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> 'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]
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Hi Vincent,
I do have the old drive still connected. It is in the "master" position 
with the new drive in the "slave" position. I tried just dragging the 
icons off the dock and dragging the application back on. Didn't work. 
What finally did work was: clicking on the icon in the dock, dragging 
the new icon, which then opened up, to the position right next to the 
original, and finally dragging the original off the dock. Don't know 
why that worked, but it did.
Since installing the new drive, I've found a few more settings which 
had to be changed, mainly(perhaps only) dealing with downloads. A few 
programs, SuperDownload for instance still pointed to my old original 
hard drive as the location to put downloads.
Curious about why you ask if the old drive was still connected?
Thanks for your response,
Mark

Mark Taintor
Chanhassen, MN USA