Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!news From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Locked folders under Multifinder Message-ID: <1991May2.021607.27644@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 2 May 91 02:16:07 GMT References: Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu (News) Distribution: na Organization: University of Washington Lines: 25 In article barvian@ece.cmu.edu (Scott Barvian) describes a problem: >Suppose I download a program that, after unstuffing, puts the application/init >or whatever and a TeachText doc file in its own folder. I then open the >doc file, browse it, close the file (but not quit TeachText) and decide to >trash the whole folder. When I try to empty the trash, I get the message > >The Trash couldn't be emptied (a file was busy or a folder was not empty). > >and the (now empty folder) reappears. Repeated attempts to trash the folder >do no good. ... TeachText is using that folder as its default (if you select Open or New you'll find yourself in that folder). So you either have to quit TeachText (and any other applications also using that folder) or set a different default (a royal pain if several apps are using it). I usually just rename such folders to "junk" and put them at the root level. On next reboot I trash them. I agree it's frustrating and stupid. Why the Mac can't just trash the folder and move the applications' default folder up one level I don't know. -- Russell owen@raven.phys.washington.edu