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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: QuickFolder problems (was Re: shutdownsound/conflict)
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Date: 30 May 88 23:35:21 GMT
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Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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In article <11310@apple.Apple.Com> steele@apple.UUCP (Oliver Steele) writes:
> 
> When I was writing MenuEdit I had a bomb in SFPGetFile that went away
> iff I rebooted without Quick Folder (perhaps somebody with my MenuEdit
> [I later learned that there's another identically named program by
> someone with a little better name recognition; mine's the one with
> the non-generic icon and the menu-shaped windows] and Quick Folder could
> tell me if that's still a problem).  Given these errors, I think there's
> probably something non-quite-kosher about Quick Folder, nifty though
> it is.

I've noticed a different set of strange symptoms that appear to point
to a problem in QuickFolder.  With QuickFolder installed, certain
applications (particularly telecom applications such as MacKermit
0.9(36)b4 and FreeTerm 3.0b2) would have difficulty creating files
immediately after an SFPutFile operation.  The problems were most
severe if an attempt was made to create a file in a folder _other_ than
the one that the application was stored in.

In some cases, clicking "Save" would result in an immediate "File is
busy" alert (with no file being created);  in others, clicking "Save"
would result in the file being created in the appropriate folder, but
the application would immediately choke with a "File does not exist"
error.  Quitting from the application and restarting it would
occasionally repair the problem, but at other times it was necessary to
reboot... and some applications simply could NOT SFPutFile to a
different folder if QuickFolder was installed.

My guess is that QuickFolder is inserting itself into the SFPutFile
code in some way that's wiping out some significant data (a
register?).

I like what QuickFolder does... and the shareware price is right... but
I've found it too buggy to depend on;  I've removed it from my system
and have ordered HFS Navigator to take its place.
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