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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Finder problem
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.020947.25392@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 02:09:47 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.123748@IASTATE.EDU>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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digdug@IASTATE.EDU ) writes:

>Does anyone have trouble copying the Res.Manager(from system.setup dir
>of the system disk) to other folders.  I get an error message that says
>can't complete because a file is open.  This sometimes happens when I
>try to copy the Finder too.

Yes, it's because they're being referred to every so often. If you move them
out from under the system bad things happen.

However, there shouldn't be a problem with copying them, unless the system
is modifying them -- in which case copying is a bad idea anyway because the
file may not be intact at the moment you copy it. The error message about
the file being open is the system's way of telling you that it's not a good
idea to do the copy right then.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu