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From: xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Xiaoxia  Ye)
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Subject: Re: Mac II won't rebuild Desktop
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Date: 25 Jan 89 00:35:23 GMT
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In article <1550@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>A professor on campus has a Mac II with a 40 meg internal HD, and it
>appears to have contracted severe desktop problems.  The Mac told him
>that it had a broken desktop file, and then it couldn't rebuild it.
>
>He says he tried the option-command trick when loading Finder, using
>MacTools, DiskFirstAid, and the test function of Apple HD SC Setup, though
>nothing seemed to work.
>
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>John O'Malley           / Macintosh  / Purdue University / (317)
>mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq / Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-1787

Try DiskExpress. It has a compact desktop option that actually rebuilds
the desktop.  Once I had a desktop file problem that I could't rebuilt
it from finder.  Moments before I decided to reinitialize the hard
disk, I gave DiskExpress a shot, and it worked like a miracle (for me
at least).  I gave this advice to a friend of mine when he also had a desktop
file problem and and it worked.

Besides being a desktop file "repairman", DiskExpress is an excellent
hard disk defragmentation program, which is this program's main
function.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with AlSoft, the publisher of
DiskExpress... blah blah...

"VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO" -- ahh, who else do I speak for!
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