🚀 go-pugleaf

> and gave me an error.  So, I took PackitIII to it, only to have PackitIII
> choke on it, and then exit to the finder, and have the finder crash every
> time it got to opening the folder that contained the partially unpacked
> MIND.pit files.  Nor could I simply boot from a floppy, and open up
> my DataFrame20, and just delete the file(s) or folder that contained
> them.  
> 
> Anyway, the long and the short of it is, I just finished reinitializing
> my drive.  Later on tonite I'm going to restore my (2 week old...arrgh!)
> backup, and re-dowload MIND.pit, and try & figure out which program(s)
> was/were the culprit in this whole mess.
> -----						  
> Peter "Arrgh" Korn		           I know lots of honorary jews!  Why,
> korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU			  some of my very best friends
> {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn            are honorary jews!

Having myself been the victim of the ``exploding folder'' syndrome, I wonder
if reinitializing the disk was not too drastic.  In that situation, I have
managed to recover by holding down the option key on boot-up (to close all
folders), and then opening until I can see the offending folder, and then
tossing the thing without opening it.

What about booting without the hard drive, setting something that deletes
files as the startup application (say ResEdit) on the floppy, then booting
with the hard drive, and deleting the offenders that way?

I'm curious if people have had this sort of problem and been unable to 
recover from it.  If so, I'll be even more paranoid than I already am!

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Steve Dorner
dorner@uxc.uiuc.cso.edu