Re: undeletable folder--help?

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From: Gray Watson
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1989 22:24

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>The easy way out of this problem is to take a tool like FEdit or MacSnoop and
>set the count in the directory to zero. If you're not familiar with the
>directory structure, play around with a floppy first by making a folder or
>two, putting a known number of files in each one, and then searching the disk
>for these values.

Ugh!!

>0000 0100 XXXX where XXXX contains the number of files in the folder in Hex.
>Change XXXX to 0000.  Make sure you do this to all occurances of
>FolderFromHell.

I think my brain just overloaded!!!  :^0

One of the reasons for keeping the great, old DeskZap DA around is for solving
this very problem.

DeskZap is the only utility I have ever seen with the Close-Open-File command.

Open the folder-from-hell with this command should list the offending files
which you can select and close.  This should allow you to throw away the folder
NORMALLY.

If is doesn't then uuuh..... follow what those guys said... :-)

gray

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From: cgw@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Gray Watson)
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Subject: Re: undeletable folder--help?
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Date: 26 Sep 89 22:24:10 GMT
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