Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!alberta!simon From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Undeletable folder or the folder from hell. Message-ID: <1990Jun14.071609.13526@cs.UAlberta.CA> Date: 14 Jun 90 07:16:09 GMT References: <1990Jun8.213853.2239@cs.UAlberta.CA> <18820@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@cs.UAlberta.CA (News Administrator) Reply-To: simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike) Organization: Petroleum Engg, U of Alberta Lines: 17 In article <18820@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Wesley Delepierre) writes: > >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. > Unfortunately, the deletion is not completed because of a 'file is busy' error. Thanks anyway. ------------------- W. Simon Tortike, | tel : 403/492-3338 Dept of Mining, Metallurgical | fax : 403/492-7219 and Petroleum Engineering, | CA*net : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA University of Alberta, | uucp : simon@alberta.uucp Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6. |