Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!barvian From: barvian@ece.cmu.edu (Scott Barvian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Locked folders under Multifinder Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 12:48:18 GMT References: <1991May2.021607.27644@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@fs7.ece.cmu.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: na Organization: ECE Dept., Carnegie-Mellon University Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu's message of 2 May 91 02:16:07 GMT (Russell Owen) writes: (Scott Barvian) describes a problem: >... >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 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. I've gotten several replies along this general theme. I can understand why TeachText has a deep-seated psychological need for its current folder to be available. That's why I always quit out of it instead of closing files when I'm in "browse and trash" mode- it's so small that the delay in opening the application is acceptable. No one so far has addressed my real question: why do background DAs, which don't have a file/folder associated with them, prevent me from trashing folders which were used by *other* applications? I have a desktop calendar DA (which uses no files) open in the background, and I can't get rid of the folders locked up by TeachText until I quit both TeachText and DA Handler. Maybe I'm describing the symptoms of some other problem. -- ==== Scott Barvian ============ Department of Electrical/Computer Eng. === ==== barvian@ece.cmu.edu ====== Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA ===