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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: Apple IIGS Disappearing Windows
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Date: 9 Aug 90 19:41:39 GMT
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carnahan@inljeff.den.mmc.com (Rich Carnahan) writes:

>I have what I believe to be a rather intriguing problem.

[ symptoms and patient system description deleted ]

From the evidence you've gathered, it sounds like the Finder.Root and
Finder.Data files in the root directory of your hard drive are toasted.
You may have to use a Prodos 8 file utility to delete them.

Once you've done that, and you try to open the hard drive, Finder will think
that you've never opened a window in the root directory before and will create
a 'default' window layout for it.

Hope this either solves the problem or gives you more to go on...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu