How to fix trashed Desktop file?

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From: Head UNIX Hacquer
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1986 15:36

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Any MacWizard know how to repair a trashed Desktop file?  Finder goes
completly west when I put the disk in, but Fedit (and other applications)
says all the files are there.  I have tried getting Finder
to rebuild the desktop, but that fails also.

The crash is spectacular - it looks like Finder starts to put up a
alert box of some kind then goes beserk, twiddling the screen, sound chip
and serial chips (at this point I manually eject the disks and watch the fun).

I am using System 2.2 and Finder 4.1 on a pre-HFS 512K.
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Subject: How to fix trashed Desktop file?
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Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 11:36:10 EDT
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