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I just copy some m2v files to a firewire drive in a G5 with Tiger on it. Then hooked it to a G4 running panther; the Icons for those m2v files look generic and I can only view the content of the drive in "colums" view mode, from a finder window.
Whenever I'm in "list" view mode, and I click the hard drive icon, all the windows and icons on the desktop disappear for one second and then the window closes.
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