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Article #45736Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell
From: Paul Big-Ears Menon
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 22:26
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 22:26
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yang@mist.cs.orst.edu (Sherry Yang) writes: >We have discovered a folder on one of the MacIIs in our lab that has nothing >in it, but it will not let us throw it away. It kept coming back with a >"File busy or folder not empty" message. ResEdit and MacTools don't do the >trick either. You are not alone. Some lucky person in our computer centre has an SE with the same problem. The folder has been made invisible. I have noted on a few occasions "near misses" to this problem. Opening a folder, trashing its contents, trashing the folder, then "empty trash" results in the same prob. Even a second attempt (when there is nothing in the folder) fails. It seems to recover later, either due to a reboot or some other magical sequence. I too would be interested in the solution to the persistent folder. Paul Menon pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU 'So this is Interne...Christmas'
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!goanna!pnm From: pnm@goanna.oz.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell Message-ID: <2840@goanna.oz.au> Date: 6 Feb 90 22:26:14 GMT References: <15543@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 18