Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!secola!oiscola!dbarnhar From: dbarnhar@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Empty Folder Problem Message-ID: <294@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 4 Sep 90 17:17:36 GMT References: <25910.26E2384C@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Reply-To: dbarnhar@oiscola.UUCP (David C. Barnhart II) Organization: NCR/OISD Columbia Lines: 68 In article <25910.26E2384C@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Chris.Gehlker@p12.f56.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Gehlker) writes: >In a message to All dated 08/30/90 at 17:22:02, Adam Schabtach writes: >schabtac@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Adam Schabtach) writes: > >AS> However, the way I deal with Folders From Hell (TM) is by dragging >AS> them onto the desktop (usually conveniently close to the Trash) and >AS> renaming them something like 'From Hell' or 'Dead.' Then the next time >AS> I boot or restart, I can throw them in the Trash and they stay there. >AS> It seems that the restart takes care of them (at least on my system). > >If that works, they aren't true Folders from Hell. What you've had is merely >a Folder from Purgatory. The same is true for folders where you can look in >them with ResEdit or the like and find a locked, invisible file. With these >you just make the file unlocked and invisible and you can trash the folder. > In fact, Virtual always turns your System Folder into a Folder from Purgatory > >but True folders from Hell are rarer. > Agreed. All of my FFHs are much harder to do anything with. They cannot be moved from the current folder in which they reside, and they cannot be renamed. What's more, if you place a folder of the same name in the folder with the FFH, the FFH will appear to be deleted, but upon reboot, *BOTH* folders are there, and they still have the same name. I haven't yet tried the trick of changing the # of files byte to 00, but unless it causes a rebuild of the catalog file, I doubt that it will help. Of course, that won't keep me from trying it out tonight. Dave Barnhart NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division 3245 Platt Springs Rd. West Columbia, SC 29169 email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!secola!oiscola!dbarnhar -- Dave Barnhart NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division 3245 Platt Springs Rd. West Columbia, SC 29169 email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!secola!oiscola!dbarnhar