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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Folder from hell => Solution!
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Date: 5 Jul 90 18:34:22 GMT
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In article <19211@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Wesley Delepierre) writes:
>Here is an undocumented feature that was found in MacWeek.
>Run Disk First Aid from a floppy with a System, since it wont fix its own disk.
>After you have selected the disk you want to fix but before you press the start
>button press Command/S and a second progress window will appear below the 
>utility window.  Then press start.  When finished any folder from hell should 
>now be trashable.

My experience is that it doesn't work-- all that happens is that in the middle
of the catalog file, Disk First Aid gives up claiming 'Cannot Verify status
of disk'.

Command-R, whatever that does, doesn't work either.
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