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Subject: HFS deadly folders
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 01:10:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 01:10:47 1986
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Organization: Tolerant Systems, Inc.  San Jose, CA
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I brought home my brand new HD 20 about a week ago and proceeded to load
onto it most of my goodies and toys (and maybe a few useful things just
to justify the expense to my wife!).  All went well for a week or so.
I am a bit disapointed by the overall performance but that's another
matter.  So yesterday I innocently open one of my folders and ....
the system freezes: nothing responds, no mouse tracking.  So having little
choice, I reboot.  {I suppose I should mention that I was running Finder 5.1
and system version 3.0 at the time).  The system reboots fine and everything
looks OK until I try to open that same folder again - same thing, I reboot
again.  This time I come back up and run Switcher to see if I can run 
anything out of the deadly folder.  No problem; open dialog boxes show me
all the files, the applications run.  A bit perplexed at this point I decide
to backup to floppies everything of value on the HD 20.  That boring chore
out of the way (does anyone have a backup/restore program for HFS?) I
decided that my problem looked like an Finder bug and booted with the
option and command keys held down to force the Finder to rebuild the
desktop file.  As previously reported (I couldn't find the reference), the
system crashed with bomb=02 during the rebuild.  My cries of woe were muted
only by the recollection of that earlier, belatedly recalled article.
Having little left to loose, I tried booting with the mouse button held down
(forcing it to stay with the floppy as the startup disk).  AND LO AND BEHOLD..
my HD 20 desktop file was rebuild and all my files were still there!
The 'deadly folder' was now quite benign! Subsequent normal reboots (onto the
HD 20) were fine.  Apparently the desktop rebuild cured the bad folder and
booting from the floppy cured the desktop rebuild.

Can anyone shed some light on what really happened to me?

			-bill (I'm still glad I made those backups) Arnett

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  Bill Arnett             		{ucbvax,nsc}!tolerant!maddog
  Tolerant Systems, Inc. San Jose
  408/946-5667