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From: eynon@lindy.stanford.edu (Barry Eynon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Help! Invisible files in SysFolder
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.215015.28797@morrow.stanford.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 21:50:15 GMT
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In article <1991Apr15.162007.9551@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


This is a classic symptom of directory damage. The only program that I am
aware of that will fix this problem short of scavenging and reformatting
your hard disk is Norton Utilities. I recommend it highly.
--
Barry Eynon
eynon@lindy.stanford.edu