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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Alias bug (was Re: 7.0 Rock Solid? Right... Reproducable crashes)
Message-ID: <1991May21.165838.12445@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 May 91 16:58:38 GMT
References: <21403@brahms.udel.edu> <165@eclectic.COM>
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In article <165@eclectic.COM>, kenh@eclectic.COM (Ken Hancock) writes:
|> In article <21403@brahms.udel.edu> weave@brahms.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
|> >7.0 Rock Solid?  When they say stuff like that, they raise your
|> >expectations. I have had it crash several times on me since I got 
|> >System 7 yesterday. Several I can reproduce.
|> 
|> Personally, I thought the 7.0 Rock Solid was a little self-congratulatory
|> and just asking for people to point out bugs which slipped through the
|> cracks.  Granted, there are still some bugs, but it is very stable,
|> relatively speaking.
|> 
Well, rocks do have cracks in them. Take a close look at the rock
in the 7.0 README. Here's another slippery bug (I couldn't repeat
it):

o made alias of Finder
o copied to diskette
o put "original" alias in Trash
o emptied Trash, holding down OPTION
- Trash didn't empty
o tried emptying again (note the menu item was not disabled):
  Alert saying trash _is_ empty
o tried moving Finder alias out of Trash onto Desktop, Alert:
    You cannot move "Finder alias" to the folder "Desktop"
    because it couldn't be found. ("it"? which of the 2?)
o restarted - trash was empty
Hardware: IIcx 8/40; a few extensions, only Finder 7.0 running.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu