Re: P6400 OS8.5 Hard Disk Open Problem

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From: David Ferrington
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 00:00

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No, fraid not, and it had been working no problem for 2+ months before hand.
I'm pretty sure I had an app crash and it was interacting with the Finder at
the time and just maybe I quit the finder, although I'm not sure any more. I
just tried a rename and it didn't help.
Thanks for you suggrstion though.

Martijn Dekker wrote:

> In article <3704F06D.88D030FD@alphadene.demon.co.uk>,
> david@alphadene.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> >After more reboots etc, I'm back where I started - can't see HD in
> >open/save dialogs :-(
>
> This is a wild guess, but are there any "weird" characters in the name of
> the hard disk, that may be confusing the open/save dialogues? Anything
> other than common letters or digits? Invisible characters such as carriage
> returns maybe?
>
> Try re-naming it (click once on the name, so that it is fully selected,
> press Backspace to delete everything, type a new name) and see if that
> does anything...
>
> Just a guess,
>
> - Martijn

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