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From: gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Folder from Hell
Message-ID: <13631@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 May 91 23:25:23 GMT
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In article <6163@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jwagner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Joseph 
Wagner) writes:
> Well, thanks to System 7.0, I've got my first folder from hell.  Here is 
the
> scenario:
>         Mac IIci with 6.0.7 on internal hard drive
>         Syquest drive with 7.0
>         Folder is on internal hard drive (6.0.7 disk) and on Syquest 
cart.
> 
> I've tried changing all the busy/locked/etc. bits with DiskTop and even 
with
> Norton Disk Editor.  I also tried replacing the folder with another one 
with
> the same name off a floppy diskette.  Any clues?  Please email and I will
> post a summary.

Run Disk First Aid (comes on your System disks) and/or Norton Utilities on 
your disks. If Norton can't repair the disk (or you don't have Norton) and 
if Disk First Aid says "unable to verify status of disk", basically the 
only recourse is to back up your stuff & reformat the naughty drive.

Side note on Norton Utilities: the version that is out now doesn't work 
with disks that have been mounted when 7.0 has been running. I did hear 
somewhere though that you can hold the command key down when clicking OK 
in the dialog you get from Norton, and it will fire up and you can check 
the disk at your own risk!!

Good luck!

Martin Gannholm
Apple Computer

Exclaimer!!!   I never said it...Nobody heard me say it...You can't prove 
anything!
"Always run Disk First Aid after a crash" -mrg