Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!emory!ox.com!heifetz!tbomb!time From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Locked folders under Multifinder Message-ID: <1CE00001.fisabj@tbomb.ice.com> Date: 13 May 91 18:41:21 GMT Reply-To: time@ice.com Distribution: comp Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc. Lines: 21 X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.1.b5 In article , aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) writes: > >The Trash couldn't be emptied (a file was busy or a folder was not empty). > > [etc...] > > This is a valid problem... If you have recently accessed a file from > a folder, you can't delete the folder. Most applications have this > "feature." It has something to do with the file pointers which the SF > dialog box keeps.... I'm not much of a Mac programmer, so I can't > give details, but I've noticed the problem and just live with it. > -=Alan The same problem exists in UNIX when you attempt to unmount a device that a user is current cd-ed to. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Endres | time@ice.com ICE Engineering | uupsi!ice.com!time 8840 Main Street | Voice FAX Whitmore Lake MI. 48189 | (313) 449 8288 (313) 449 9208