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From: engber@shorty.CS.WISC.EDU (Mike Engber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MacCompress is eating my hard disk
Summary: this is caused when it tries to decompress a bad file
Keywords: MacCompress
Message-ID: <7282@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 89 23:16:28 GMT
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Reply-To: engber@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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I've found that when I use MacCompress that there are some files that send
it off into space (maybe they're damaged, who knows). It chews on them for
a while and then the mouse freezes up. When I reboot the free space on my
hd is reduced, sometimes by as much as a meg.

I checked for invisible temporary files to delete, but found none. Can
anyone explain this behavior and offer any suggestions on how to fix it.
Also, is there any chance of MacCompress doing any serious damage apart
from using up space.

I tried to reach the author, lloyd@stanford.edu, but my mail isn't getting
through. Apart from this, MacCompress is awesome & saves me lots of time.

-ME