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From: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Invisible files in System Folder
Message-ID: <349@alchemy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 91 00:06:17 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.194623.29049@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink)
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A long time ago I have had a similar problem with a clients' system.  In their 
case it was running on a Mac Plus with an internal GCC hard drive.  Don't know 
if that is of relevance, but what is your system setup on the hardware side?

What I had to end up doing is to totally wipe the drive and reformat it since I
was even unable to reinstall a new system, or delete the system folder.  Under 
resedit none of the additional files show up, but if you put a file in the 
folder with a bad name (beyond M in my case), it would disappear, yet be there.
If you tried to copy a file with that name back in that folder, the finder 
would inform you that a file of that type already existed.  As far as I know 
this condition also locks the files and makes it impossible to delete the 
folder.

Solution one was to rename the folder (in this case into HellFolder) and leave 
it there, as empty as can be.

Solution two was to back up all except the affected folder and wipe the drive 
and restore all.

In fact, It didn't just happen on the system, but another time on a different 
application folder.

Weird problem, and I have no clue what causes it.

Harry

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