🚀 go-pugleaf

In the course of recovering from a dying hard disk over the weekend, I
somehow created a "file from hell."  The simple data file was not
locked, in use, or anything else I could see, yet the Trash Can
refused to dispatch it.  It just quietly sat in the Trash and would
not go away.

I looked at the file attributes with ResEdit 2.1.1 (Sys 7 with
tuneup), and the only attribute turned on was INITED. And
specifically, LOCKED was *not* turned on.  Yet if I tried to change
the file attributes or rename the file from within ResEdit, I got a
message to the effect of "file locked -45".

So I cranked up FileKit, which I had recently obtained (shareware)
from the net. It reported the same attributes as ResEdit. But using
FileKit, I was able to:
  1. lock the file (no error reported)
  2. unlock the file (no error reported)

This fixed the problem, and the Trash Can then was able to delete the
file normally.

So this is a plug for FileKit from a very satisfied user.  Pay your
shareware fees!

-Dave


David Emme                  Intel Corp., CH2-23
demme@fa.intel.com          Knowledge Applications Lab.
(602) 554-3328              5000 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler, AZ 85226