Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!lapis!oster From: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Odd Mac+ behavior Message-ID: <1342@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 13:11:27 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.1342 Posted: Fri Sep 26 13:11:27 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 06:34:06 EDT References: <328@hydra.riacs.ARPA> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 10 In article <328@hydra.riacs.ARPA> julian@riacs.ARPA (Julian E. Gomez) writes: >Here's a weird one that just started last night. When I double click a >certain folder on my hard disk the system forgets to update the cursor You should back up your files, and rebuild the desktop (reboot holding down the option and clover keys.) The Finder is a strange and wonderful assembly language program. If it follows a bad pointer, so that it accesses a particular spot in the Macs hardware registers, mouse interrupts will be disabled and you'll get the behavior you are getting.