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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Folder from hell => Solution!
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.192053.27379@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Jul 90 19:20:53 GMT
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In article <19211@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (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.
Yet another example of the intuitive Mac interface, especially in software
supplied by Apple...

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu