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From: delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Wesley Delepierre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Undeletable folder or the folder from hell.
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Date: 10 Jun 90 06:02:10 GMT
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Reply-To: delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Wesley Delepierre)
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]This topic was discussed several months ago but unfortunately I did not
]follow it closely at the time.  I have one of these undeletable folders:
]the 'file is busy or the folder is not empty' is the response every time
]I try to trash it.  DiskTop claims the folder contains -3 files, while the
]Finder, which presumably can't count less that 0, states that there are
]zero items inside.  I tried putting 3 junk files inside the folder, in a
]vain attempt to fool the system gods, but was still unable to delete the
]folder.  I would reformat the disk, but it is my 80 Mbyte internal.

Here is one solution that I came up with.  I used the shareware stuffit to 
archive the folder as a folder and had the 'delete when done' option checked
.  When the process was completed the folder from hell was gone and the inert
archived folder could be trashed with no problems.  Hope this helps.

Wes Delepierre
delepiw@nyssa.cs.orst.edu