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From: bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: I need some help with a strange disk crash
Message-ID: <10330024@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 88 12:44:22 GMT
References: <2982@mit-amt>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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>	I crashed the hard disk on one of our Mac II and would
> like some help recovering it.  All the files are still there,
> but they are not visible from the finder, only from SFGetFile
> boxes and such.  I have tried rebuilding the desktop to no avail.
> I am not looking forward to putting all the files on floppies or
> some other medium.

Most strange - from the description you give, it sounds like the 
Invisible flag for all files has been turned on. You can use ResEdit
to change all the flags (slow and tedious, especially on a hard disk),
or you can modify the program given in Tech Note 68 to turn off the 
invisible bit for all the programs on the disk. (If Tech Notes/programming
tools are not available, let me know directly and I'll try to send you
the program). (If you have MPW you can probably use the SetFile tool
and regular expressions to do the same thing, with less work).

The other possibility is that all the files are very far off the screen, but
rebuilding the desktop should have fixed this. If the scroll bars are
empty on the desktop, the files are invisible; if they are not the files
are way, way, way out there.

(obligitory warnings) If you do get the files back, tread lightly, as they
may not be what you think they are. They should be backed up, the disk 
initialized, and the files restored, if at all possible.

>						phil

Bob Hablutzel		BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU