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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Folder from hell => Solution!
Summary: command-S just lets you see the process
Message-ID: <42694@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 90 10:51:11 GMT
References: <19211@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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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.
>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.

While Disk First Aid will often be able to fix a directory with the
untrashable folder problem, all pressing command-S does is show the
Scavenge window; it doesn't make any functional difference.
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