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In article <200@brain.UUCP> root@brain.UUCP (Chuck Shotton) writes:
>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.
>
>I've had this problem before and it's VERY hard to fix. Here's what happens.
>The author of Finder incorrectly assumes that a non-zero number of files in a
>folder indicates it isn't empty. Unfortunately, negative numbers are non-zero,
>and this is the problem....
>Anyway, using FEdit you can track down the offending folder's directory entry
>and set the negative file count back to zero. This is the HARD part....

Perhaps this is awfully naive of me.  If the problem is that the folder has
a negative number of files in it, isn't it just possible that, by copying
a file into the folder "enough" times, you could make the folder think that
it had 0 files in it?  For users who don't have FEdit, or are nervous about
digging around in their disk directories, IF THIS WORKED, it would be easier
(probably) and less nerve-wracking (definitely).

Alternately, perhaps having a file in it would reset the number of files
counter to the correct value, in which case adding a file, deleting it, and
then trying to delete the folder might cure the problem.

Just a couple of possibilities...



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