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From: rwi@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: invisible folders
Message-ID: <941@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 22:01:34 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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  Can anyone tell me about a funny thing I've had turn up on my 
  Mac Plus lately.  I have an invisible folder named "Applications
  1".  Now it used to be visible, but at this time, neither the 
  Finder nor Find File seem to be able to see it.  However, when
  I use "Disktop", it is listed as if it were a regular folder, and
  I can move it around inside other folders as if it were normal. 

  According to MacSnoop, it has the same attributes "0010 16"
  as normal folders.  What is making it invisible?  Actually,
  if I can reproduce this condition, I have a use for it here
  in some classroom programming.  Can anyone explain what is happening
  here, or point me to the correct reference in Inside Macintosh?

  thanks...



       Bob Wier -- College of Engineering & Technology
                   Northern Arizona University
                   NAU Box 15600
                   Flagstaff, Arizona 86011

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