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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Editing Pro-DOS Directories
Message-ID: <12376@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 Mar 90 11:16:54 GMT
References: <10920.netnews.info-apple@pro-novapple> <13679@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <13679@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> bird@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (j.l.walters) writes:
-If you are deleting from the finder and your are set up to allow
-the finder to update itself to memory, then you are probably in
-trouble since doing so will write a file to memory that can stomp on
-the file you just deleated.

The trick is to first bring up the Finder's Preferences menu and
tell it NOT to save window information to disk.