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From: dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Help!Invisible files in SystemFolder
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.191622.29766@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 00:16:22 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.011051.7788@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <1991Apr16.011051.7788@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, tschofe@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (martin ric tschofen) writes:
> A friend of mine has a big problem with his Mac.
> After his last system crash part of the files in his system folder
> vanished, actually he can only find files starting with the letters
> a and b.
> I saw a topic talking about something similar where a harddrive went berserk
> and the person could only see files from a-l.
> Somebody I tought wrote a little program that solved the problem.
> He is using a SE with a Quantum PS40 and Sys. 6.0.5.
> After rebuting he switched off all his inits and cdevs.
> 
> Please send email to hill@ucs.indiana.edu as he has no access to the net.
> Or re post the solutions.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> tschofe@ucs.indiana.edu

Just reinstall the system software.  Pull all of the inits/CDEVs out
(presumably you will have to replace the ones beginning with a & b, but he had
backups, right? :-) )  Boot from a floppy, throw away the system folder on the
quantum and reinstall *6.0.7*.

If this is a thoroughly distastful thought, use resedit to "get info" about the sys files
that are not seen to see if somehow the invisible file checkbox got marked.

-- 
Rob Dewhirst
Sysop: The MacRocosm BBS - (913) 841-9446 < --Best route
AOL:Echopapa <-- Okay route
FAX 9138652639 <-- So so route
dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu <-- Yuck!

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