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From: pfluegerm@...!asuvax!gtephx (Mike Pflueger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Folder from Hell
Summary: still haven't fixed that bug, eh?
Message-ID: <1991May24.172753.14239@...!asuvax!gtephx>
Date: 24 May 91 17:27:53 GMT
References: <6163@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <13631@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: AG Communication Systems - Phoenix, AZ
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In article <13631@goofy.Apple.COM>, gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm) writes:
> 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
   [stuff deleted]
> 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.
 [stuff deleted]
> Good luck!
> 
> Martin Gannholm
> Apple Computer

Why didn't Apple fix this in 7.0???  IMHO, this is a finder bug.

Seems that they could check for a valence (items in folder) < 0,
and present an alert "This may be a folder from hell.  Or we may
have ANOTHER bug - something might really be in it.  Are you sure you
want to delete it?"

If you use a disk editor and change these valences to 0, the folder
deletes OK.  I won't go into how to do this because if you haven't
already figured out how to do it, it's too risky.

"Somehow" (um, could it be another finder/toolbox bug? >:^) ) the
number of items in that directory gets decremented past 0 (hmm, whose
code deletes files? is it FILE MANAGER?).

There is also a Folder From Hell fixer at sumex (UTIL/HELL-FOLDER-FIX.HQX),
but i have not tried the program and don't know if it works.


Mike

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