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Re: What is Move and Rename?

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From: Alan D.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:56
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banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:

>When in Word (ver. 5.00, running on an SE/30 with System 7) I go to
>the open dialog box, I sometimes see a folder on my hard disk called
>Move and Rename (it actually has two little symbol boxes in front of the 
>name but I can't do them here).  It is invisible from any other
>application or the finder, but with ResEdit I can 'visibilise' it and
>it always turns out to be empty.  I generally chuck it away, but it 
>usually reappears after a while.

The Move and Rename folder is generally caused by file sharing, or so
I'm told.

>I assume it is something created by the finder when I drop things into
>my system folder and it suggests where they should go, but perhaps not.
>Out of curiosity I'd like to know where this folder comes from and if
>there is any fix to stop it being created (or to stop it being seen by
>Word) I'd be interested, though it is hardly a problem.

I'm not sure how to get Word to stop showing it...

	-=Alan
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