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Article #122Re: Zip drive woes
From: R.G. & L.M. Lascelles
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:00
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In article <B6304951.3B45%alee@mail.newcastle.edu.au>, Alex Lee <alee@mail.newcastle.edu.au> wrote: > Symptoms include file lists changing within the Finder, where they can > visibly be seen to change the number of files listed in the top of the > window and the whole list of files seems to jump around. Using the normal > 'Save' command the program will report that it can't find the file to save > to/replace (although Save As... works fine). Worst still, is that all the > file types and creators can be lost and all the files revert back to the > generic PC file type and creator. The very worst is that the disk just > gives up the ghost and all the files are lost. I can't help but I've experienced the same problem with OS 9.0.4. I overcame the problem on a short term basis by copying the disk to my HD, working on any files as required then copying them back to the PC Zip disk. Regards Bob Lascelles
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f64bf,9f6df18ccc0013c7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf64bf,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,9f6df18ccc0013c7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public From: "R.G. & L.M. Lascelles" <lascelles@t130.aone.net.au> Subject: Re: Zip drive woes Date: 2000/11/10 Message-ID: <lascelles-FB5DAD.23103010112000@news.twb.aone.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 692009016 Distribution: world References: <B6304951.3B45%alee@mail.newcastle.edu.au> X-Trace: ozemail.com.au 973861858 210.84.182.144 (Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:10:58 EST) Organization: Saturn Graphics User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:10:58 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,aus.computers.mac