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Subject: Re: Lisa Workshop Questions
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 06:38:42 EST
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From: kyle.wbst@XEROX.ARPA

I have been warned by my local dealer not to install Office System 7/7
(which I also hear is known as version 3.0 ...supposedly an upgrade to
the 2.0 I have) because it has the disk eating bug you mentioned. He
said a fix is on the way (fat chance now that Apple is dropping the
LISA). This was over a month ago and this magic fix (which was "only a
couple of weeks away") has yet to materialize. What did come in the mail
was a statement from Apple saying that we didn't have to pay for the
merchandize sent (more indications that no fix will ever come, but you
can keep for free the bum software that doesn't work). 

The dealer did say that the only known cure is to do what you have been
doing (a hard disk repair routine). The problem seems to get worse if
you are doing alot of print outs. The disk fills fast with the stuff for
spooling to the printer , then never gets cleaned off no matter what you
do (outside of a repair ). Depending on your work load, you can expect
to spend several hours per week doing hard disk repairs (fun, huh?).

I have a friend at another company who claims he has seen no problems at
all with his 3.0 package, but he never does any printing so we don't
know yet if that is the reason for his trouble free operation, or if he
lucked out and got an advanced copy of the legendary fixed version of
the software.