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From: gmoff@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Moffat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Empty Folder Problem
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.103510.6766@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Date: 5 Sep 90 10:35:10 GMT
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roskar@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Veljko Roskar) writes:
>>I boot or restart, I can throw them in the Trash and they stay there.
>>It seems that the restart takes care of them (at least on my system).
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>have the the Word Application on original discs so I don't need to back up
Some folks always learn the hard way, don't they?
BTW, how much time have you spent already trying to get rid of the thing?

A simple, sledge-hammer remedy: 
1- Backup all your disk (since you do this regularly, an incremental backup
    doesn't take very long, does it :-)) except the problem stuff
2- Reformat
3- Restore from backups (I use SUM Backup which positions folders/windows
    exactly as they were, a feature which IMO makes up for the lack of
    flexibility in choosing what is backed-up/restored)

This also gives you, for free, a complete file de-fragmentation and disk
 optimisation :-)  Who needs to buy DiskExpress or SUM Tuneup?

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    Graeme Moffat                         Phone : +64 9 737 999  x8384 
    Computer Aided Design Centre,         Fax   : +64 9 366 0702
    School of Engineering,		  Mail  : Private Bag, Auckland, NZ
    University of Auckland		  Email : gmoff@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz