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Article #42557Folders from Hell
From: Todd Heatherton
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 14:33
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 14:33
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One of our mac users has been plagued with this bizarre problem. She
has an SE, a 40 meg FX drive and tape backup. She is running a number
of different inits (about eight total) and system 6. While backing up
her hard disk she noticed a folder which contains five other folders.
She can open the first folder but cannot open the other folders (gets
this strange in use message). She also cannot throw the folders out
(she gets a Folder not Empty message). She can rename the folders and
move them around--but they refuse to die. If she copies the folders to
a floppy, she can see that there is nothing in the folders and can throw
them out. Further, if she boots off a floppy and then tries to throw out
the folders, she still cannot get rid of them. Any advice or help?
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Todd Heatherton Department of Psychology University of Toronto
Phone: 416-978-6387 (office) Email: heath@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
416-482-4847 (home) or heath@psych.utoronto.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!heath From: heath@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Todd Heatherton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Folders from Hell Keywords: Folders that won't die Message-ID: <1989May15.103346.5557@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Date: 15 May 89 14:33:46 GMT Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services Lines: 22 Checksum: 03597