Problems with Finder/System?

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From: John T. Nelson
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1989 18:14

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Three of the Macintoshes at my site have a really bizarre problem that
no one has been able to solve....

Several of my documents seem to have, as their files type, other
document names.  For example if I show all of my files by name I find
that the file "john's memo" has document type "bob's memo."  And the
file bob's memo is (obviously) another document.  I've tried removing
the files and recreating them from within their parent applications
(e.g. click on MacWrite and read the document then save as "john's
memo.2") and that works for about a minute... then they assume the
file type of another document again.  I've also tried rebooting,
removing and restoing the system folder and all kinds of ad hoc
experimentation but to no avail.

This is happening on both Mac Pluses and Mac IIs and started soon
after I upgraded to Finder 6.1 System 6.0.2.  Has anyone else seen
this problem?

Please respond by email... I can't keep up with the Mac bboards right
now.  Thanks in advance!


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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
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Subject: Problems with Finder/System?
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Date: 10 Feb 89 18:14:53 GMT
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