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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Invisible System Folder - HELP!!
Message-ID: <43484@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 90 03:22:30 GMT
References: <1990Jul9.130535.709@cs.utk.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes:
>	Something very strange was happen on the Mac at work.  After
>running the free CD-ROM from Apple, the system folder has now become
>invisible!  The hard drive boots fine and all INITs get loaded but the
>icon of the system folder is missing.  Mac-Tools says that it is there
>and not invisible!  How do I fix it?

Select all the files/folders on the disk, drag them to the desktop, then
drag them back to the disk.  I don't know why, but I've also seen this happen
on an AppleShare volume (once, after running with no problems for 2 years,
with the only interruption being the 7.1 'quake in Oct.)

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