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From: borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: HFS deadly folders
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 15:49:48 EST
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I found that remaking the DeskTop file on an HD20 is a very good thing to do
every two weeks or so.  One time I shed 77K!

The HD20 System that came with the HD20, System 3.0b2, and System 3.0 all have
the same problem redoing the desktop: if done with the HD as the startup disk
it will bomb at the very end with an Address Error (=02).  The cure for this
is to use a floppy as the startup disk, and it will then work.

Previous Systems/Finders handled remaking the desktop on startup floppies fine.
I kept hoping this problem would be fixed with System 3.0.  I was disappointed.

Has anyone tried this with the new ROMs?  Perhaps they might be the trick.
If someone out there who knows the reasoning behind this (and a solution?) 
please enlighten us.  (Larry?)

If anyone hears of a backup program for the HD20 PLEASE TELL US!!!!  Current
methods of backup (~none) are far too primitive to be associated with a Mac.  

--chris
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Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS	
Micro Consultant, UCSD

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