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Article #28103Re: Huh?
From: Scott A. McIntyre
Date: Sat, 14 May 1988 00:55
Date: Sat, 14 May 1988 00:55
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+-In article <440009@hpdstma.HP.COM>, dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) wrote:-
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>Thanks to everyone who replied to me via E-mail about the Desktop file --
>it has been very illuminating as well as useful. FYI here is additional
>info about the other invisible file I found on my HD:
>
>It's name is InvisHDBo3bMain, and it seems to be related to a shareware
>DA I pulled off of com.binaries.mac a wekk or so ago called DiscLock. I
>imagine that it has something to do with locking the hard disc.
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That file is a invisible record of backups that you have done on your
hard drive. If you use Apple's HD backup program, it will create this file
as a record of when you last did backups, like a date stamp, so you can
do a local backup, and not a global.
I use Fastback, as far as I know, it does not make a invisible file, if it
bothers you that it exists. Plus, Fastback is just that - fast. I recently
like last night, had a MAJOR problem with my mac. Somehow, an invisible file
was taking up quite a bit of space, namely, 3 megs. I could not locate the
file with ANY utility program that I own, so I backed up with Fastback,
reformatted, and restored...no problem! The whole process took about an hour.
Hope this helps,
Scott
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!mimsy!eneevax!umd5!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!ssyx!avalon From: avalon@ssyx (Scott A. McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Huh? Message-ID: <8805140055.AA15464@ssyx.ucsc.edu> Date: 14 May 88 00:55:33 GMT References: <440009@hpdstma.HP.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: avalon%ssyx.UCSC.EDU@ucscc.UCSC.EDU Lines: 35