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Article #45825Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell
From: Norman Graham
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 16:13
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 16:13
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From article <2840@goanna.oz.au>, by pnm@goanna.oz.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon):
> 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. [...]
>
> You are not alone. [...]
> It seems
> to recover later, either due to a reboot or some other magical sequence.
In all the cases like this that I've run across, the problem was due to
some application, DA, cdev, or INIT keeping the directory open--that's
why rebooting solved the problem. Sometimes this can be fairly subtle,
especially if, in ages past, you've configured a cdev to use that
directory; of course now you may not even remember you have that cdev
installed.
--
Norman Graham Oklahoma State University
Internet: norman@a.cs.okstate.edu Computing and Information Sciences
UUCP: {cbosgd, rutgers} 219 Mathematical Sciences Building
!okstate!norman Stillwater, OK USA 74078-0599
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!rutgers!okstate!norman From: norman@a.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell Message-ID: <5350@okstate.UUCP> Date: 7 Feb 90 16:13:22 GMT References: <2840@goanna.oz.au> Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater Lines: 21