Re: A folder from hell

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2 total messages Started by Salient Software Sat, 31 Oct 1992 00:11

#17

Author: Salient Software
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 00:11

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In article <Bwy0r1.9Cs@unccsun.uncc.edu> (comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system), msmcknig@unccsun.uncc.edu (Michael S McKnight) writes:
> Ok, today we tried a utility called DesktopReset.  The archive for this only 
> has a system extention in it.  We copied this to the extensions folder and
> rebooted the machine and nothing happened.  I suspect we are supposed to do
> something to activate it but the archive contained no documentation.
> 
> We just got DiskFirstAif 7.1 and will try it in a little while.  If anyone
> knows anything about DesktopReset please let me know.
...

On startup just hold down the Command and Option keys just as you
would for a regular rebuild.  Keep in mind that this is an INIT so
you will need to hold down the keys immediately after you get the
welcome to Macintosh dialog.  You will see a dialog that asks if your
sure you want to reset the desktop.  Press reset and you will be told
if the desktop was reset successfully you will get another dialog
saying so.  Press return to exit this dialog.  You will be asked these
questions for each partition/drive you have on your system.  When
the Finder comes up it won't be able to find its data bases so it
will create new ones.

The instructions should have been in the file header.

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Re: A folder from hell

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Author: WILLIAM DAVID BURNS
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 19:45

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Well, we had a similar problem at a computer lab I work at...a folder was
locked and we could NOT get rid of it....we had switched over to sys7
recently.
  Something ocurred to me as I was beating my head against wall trying to
delete all these folders....remember they changed the meaning of several
bits for files/folders under sys7?

Well, as it turns out what used to be the FileLock bit (or something like
that) is now either not used or changed.  Meaning:  with every tool 
available to me under sys7, I could NOT delete that folder.

Solution: try all your utilites under system 6

Bill Burns
-- 
  Bill Burns       [ Internet: wdburns@mtu.edu ]
                   [ AppleLink: SHADOW         ]
  Apple Student Rep, MTU
  Senior Macintosh Technical Consultant, CCLI LAB - Michigan Tech Univ.

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