Where are the 'left out' desktop icons stored

I copied most of my Aimiga OS4 partition to my datas: partition, made the last bootable with a higher priorities, and rebooted. Everything oK but where are my left out desktop icons ?

Joseph

@JosDuchIt

The left out icons aren't actually stored somewhere (this is not windows ;). They are still in their original place, it's just that they are marked as left out so you won't see them in their original place in workbench windows. IIRC the .backdrop file in the partition root tells the system which icons are "left out" on that partition.

@JosDuchIt

Workbench is a program, not a physical location (Win & Mac).

When I have left icons out, they have disappeared on the next re-boot.
So I think left-out is just for the current session.

@Swoop

if by ''left icons out'' you mean that you drag an icon from a folder or disk
and you drop it on workbench, maybe the answer is yes.
to be permanet you have to sellect the icon in the folder or disk and from menu to choose the ''leave out'' option.

@orgin
Thanks
somehow a number of them disappeared. don't know how

@Swoop
No they are intended to stay.
Maybe you .backdrop file is not present?

@amije

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Thanks, I'll give that a try.

@JosDuchIt

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Each partition has its own .backdrop file. If you move an icon from one partition to another, you have to leave it out again in order to add it to the .backdrop file of the destination partition.

Bye,
Thomas

@JosDuchIt

Another thing that can happen (this happened to me with AOS3.9, I didn't have a cd-rom drive to install it so I set the wife computers D:\ to shared and mounted it via Samba, unfortunately this wreaks havoc with file protection bits), if the .backdrop file is write protected, everything you "leave out" won't stick either. (protect work:.backdrop +rwd should fix this)