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Article #43066Re: Folders from Hell - Part II
From: Olle Furberg
Date: Fri, 26 May 1989 00:12
Date: Fri, 26 May 1989 00:12
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In article <1989May25.094147.5884@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> heath@gpu.utcs.utoronto
.ca (Todd Heatherton) writes:
>
>Summary of Problem - Five folders which will not disappear off an FX-60.
>The five folders are empty except one which had an invisible file. All
>folders report being inited and changing that does not allow them to
>be killed.
I also have this problem.(System 6.02, a lot of inits & cdevs)
I've got a single folder on my HD and according to ResEdit, MacTools,
Fedit and MacSnoop (and many other pgms) this folder should be empty. However
Disktools II says that there are 3 items in the folder, but doesn't show them.
I have no problems to open the folder in finder or copy and delete files
I put in it. But there is no way to delete this weird folder in finder, or by
any of these programs: I always get a message of type -47, i.e. file is busy.
In article <1989May15.103346.5557@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, Todd writes:
>If she copies the folders to
>a floppy, she can see that there is nothing in the folders and can throw
>them out.
Maybe the best solution is to make a file by file backup of the drive using
e.g. Diskfit, reinitialize the drive and then reinstall all the files.
One question is: Is it possible to get a full backup (modulo the weird
folders) either by Diskfit (HD to Floppies) or Finder (HD to HD)?
But: Why does this happen? This is just as mysterious as the BNDL-bit-on-
-documents problem.
/Olle
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!sics.se!ollef From: ollef@osiris.sics.se (Olle Furberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Folders from Hell - Part II Message-ID: <2685@osiris.sics.se> Date: 26 May 89 00:12:18 GMT References: <1989May25.094147.5884@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Reply-To: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista Lines: 33