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From: knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: File Busy
Message-ID: <4667@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 89 05:00:05 GMT
References: <3563@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <3563@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> g556871349ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000073669;0;745;352;) writes:
>Our Mac crashed this morning while under LSC. A file that was being used
>can not be opened because it has the File Busy bit set (I looked at it in
>ResEdit) and it can not be trashed with a dialog box with the Busy message
>coming up when I try. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
>Much thanks in advance if you can help.

Rebooting under Finder will close the file. Also, there is a DA called
CloseFile which resets the Busy bit of a file. It should be available
on sumex-aim.

By the way, the same problem happens with LSP 2.0 in case of a system
crash.

Edgar

(knapp@cs.utexas.edu)