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From: avalon@ssyx (Scott A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Huh?
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Date: 14 May 88 00:55:33 GMT
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+-In article <440009@hpdstma.HP.COM>, dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) wrote:-
+----------
>Thanks to everyone who replied to me via E-mail about the Desktop file --
>it has been very illuminating as well as useful. FYI here is additional
>info about the other invisible file I found on my HD:
>
>It's name is InvisHDBo3bMain, and it seems to be related to a shareware
>DA I pulled off of com.binaries.mac a wekk or so ago called DiscLock. I
>imagine that it has something to do with locking the hard disc.
+----------


   That file is a invisible record of backups that you have done on your
hard drive.  If you use Apple's HD backup program, it will create this file
as a record of when you last did backups, like a date stamp, so you can
do a local backup, and not a global.   

   I use Fastback, as far as I know, it does not make a invisible file, if it
bothers you that it exists.  Plus, Fastback is just that - fast.  I recently
like last night, had a MAJOR problem with my mac.  Somehow, an invisible file
was taking up quite a bit of space, namely, 3 megs.  I could not locate the
file with ANY utility program that I own, so I backed up with Fastback,
reformatted, and restored...no problem!  The whole process took about an hour.

Hope this helps,
Scott

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