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From: bh11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Braddock John Hathaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: 1/2 system disappeared
Message-ID: <4ZUV61S00WBLI26mkL@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 89 08:19:13 GMT
Organization: Class of '90, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Hi!

Yesterday, a friend of mine tried to print a pagemaker
file from my mac II to a DeskWriter.  There was a
system crash, and the next time that I booted up,
roughly half of my system folder was gone.  Just gone.

Weird.  Alphabetically, everything after PMUSUSER.TXT,
which (coincidentally or not) is a PageMaker document,
is missing.  The system folder is actually called
"Server Folder" 'cause I have the server software
installed.

The very weirdest thing about this is that the system
still boots from my hard disk, and recognizes that the
server folder is the current system folder . . . even
though there is no file named "system" in the folder!

I took a look at the files in the system using MacTools,
to see if they had somehow become invisible, but to no
avail.  I *HAD* been running about a gajillion inits and
cdevs on startup, but as a result of this mishap, am
only left with about half of them.  The remaining are as
follows:

INITS:
HD Partition INIT
Easy Access
Font/DA Juggler Plus
INIT PramFix
OnCue

CDEVS:
MacTCP
Vaccine 1.0.1
_init cdev
Color
HierDA
General
Keyboard
Kolor
Talking Moose (although I currently have this stifled by _init cdev
        . . . it's entitled "meese", which is why it wasn't deleted)
Monitors
Mouse

All the others are now gone, but here are those I remember:

Pyro
some program that redefined the windows to look like Next.


The rest honestly escape me.

Can anybody offer any kind of help?

I have SUMII installed, so the location of the files is
probably pretty well known . . .

Thanks,

Brad