Mac OS 9: Visual QuickStart Guide

Icons & Windows of Shared Items

The appearance of a shared item provides visual clues to its privilege settings.

• Folders that cannot be opened have buckles around them (Figure 54). If you try to open of these folders, a dialog box like the one in Figure 55 tells you why you can't.

  Figure 54. Folder icons indicate file-sharing privileges. (The Desktop folder is always a locked folder.)

  

  Figure 55. When you try to open a folder you're not allowed to open, a dialog box like this appears.

  

• A drop-box folder has a down-pointing arrow above it (Figure 54). ...