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Article #46587Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell
From: Scott Englander
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 19:03
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 19:03
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In article <1990Feb6.213912.26834@ultra.com> rich@ultra.com (Rich Fall) 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
>
>My solution? Use a backup program to save the hard disk, then reformat and
>restore. Some Mac hacker out there may know a better solution (and perhaps
>why the problem occurs), but I don't.
No need to take such drastic action. Simply select the folder from
within ResEdit, and then select "Clear" from the Edit menu. That will
get rid of it.
--
- Scott
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!englandr From: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell Message-ID: <14003@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 20 Feb 90 19:03:27 GMT References: <15543@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1990Feb6.213912.26834@ultra.com> Reply-To: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 17