My folder from Hell has had a baby

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From: Dr T A Harley
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 1990 13:05

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Not only is my machine possessed by a folder from Hell, but it has now
replicated.

Many thanks to those who offered suggestions.  However, command-option-
trashing didn't work;  Apple's Disk First Aid gave me "An internal error
has occurred - cannot continue" while verifying, and stopped, and then
another folder became a folder from Hell when I tried to overwrite it.

SUM DiskFirstAid gave the following error messages:
  Allocation map is invalid
  Directory is bad

What exactly do these mean, can they be repaired (SUM II won't), or do
I have to reformat my hard disk?  What are the consequences if I don't?

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From: psrds@warwick.ac.uk (Dr T A Harley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: My folder from Hell has had a baby
Message-ID: <461@clover.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Mar 90 13:05:03 GMT
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