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Hi!  I'm having a couple of problems using my Mac+, and I thought
I'd appeal to the net.  I have a Mac+ and 800K external drive under
Finder 5.3 and System 3.2

Unusable Disk:  I wished to erase and re-use a disk recently.  I removed
 everything on the disk to the trash except for one application, for which
 the Finder gave me an error alert: "That may not be duplicated or moved".
 Seeking a cause for this alert, I opened ResEdit and did a "Get Info"
 on the persistent application.  Four switches were on: Bozo, Bundle,
 Initied, and File Protect.  I unchecked the first three, but I could
 not turn off File Protect.  I closed ResEdit and tried again to throw
 away the file: the same error alert.
   I wasn't able to select "Erase Disk" from the Finder at any point
 (it was grayed).  So I figured I would just copy over some other disk
 on top of it, in the hopes that that would erase the problem file.
 I used CopyIIMac 4.51 to copy a playpen system disk to the disk with
 the sticky file.  The copy completed normally.  When I returned to the
 Finder and re-inserted the disk, I an the alert telling me that the
 disk was damaged, and presented the disk initialization dialog (buttons
 for eject, one-sided, two-sided).  I selected two-sided.  The result
 was an error alert stating that the intialization failed!  My only
 option was to click in "OK".
   That's been the story ever since.  I'd love to empty this disk, and
 make it look like I had just unwrapped it for the first time.  But now
 I cannot even get it accepted by my Mac.
   The wisdom of the net is humbly requested for assistance.

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System Crash:  I am working on an application.  Inevitably, a pointer
 goes astray, and I get a system bomb alert.  My only choice is to reboot
 the system - which takes a while.  Is there anything I can do, in the
 Finder, System, or my application, that will enable the system to resume
 after such a problem?  I wouldn't mind if it just rebooted itself auto-
 matically, but something more graceful (and fast!) would be nice...

Thanks for any help!

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-Andrew		

Andrew Glassner		
glassner@unc	decvax!mcnc!unc!glassner