Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!lsr@Apple.com From: lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Locked folders under Multifinder Message-ID: <13303@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 2 May 91 22:35:11 GMT References: Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Distribution: na Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 10 The issue is not specific to TeachText. I believe that the same thing happens with any application. The technical reason is that the system opens a working directory, and passes the working directory id to the application. Until that working directory is closed the folder is in use. The behavior you see with DAs happens because DAs are run in the DA Handler application. If one DA uses a folder, then you have to quit the DA Handler (ie close all DAs) before the working directory will be closed.