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From: alan@Apple.COM (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacCompress is eating my hard disk
Keywords: MacCompress
Message-ID: <875@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 01:13:31 GMT
References: <7282@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <7282@spool.cs.wisc.edu> engber@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber) writes:
>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.
>
>-ME

I've found that the problem is caused by the files created by MacCompress
having non-zero VERSION numbers.  This is a NONO according to all Macintosh
programming documentation.  Unfortunately, since virtually nothing does
make this mistake, there are few utilities around for killing off these
files.

MPW shell can show you files that you can't see with Finder or SFGetFile.
You can use it to copy the files so the contents can be recovered.  You
can also use it to delete the "bad" ones.

You might write a simple program to look for files on your disk that have
nonzero version numbers and set them to zero.  This is the ultimate fix.

Hope this helps...
-- 
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