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From: bluebum@westfort.UUCP (Barry Chern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Fatal fragmentation?
Message-ID: <2128@westfort.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 89 02:24:47 GMT
Reply-To: westfort!bluebum@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: Outside the Asylum at the Western Fortress
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Has anyone ever heard of a desktop becoming fatally fragmented? I recently saw 
a couple of floppies die right before my eyes in a way that led me to consider this 
as a possible cause. I was working on cleaning up my archive of PD type 
downloads, copying things from disk to disk and deleting them from their 
original location. Right before the moment of doom I noticed an extreme 
slowness in the response of an icon as I would try to drag it, even for a 
fraction of an inch in the same window. I would simply be trying to rearrange 
things cosmetically, and the sucker would just sit there for what seemed like 
an eternity (could have been a whole second) before following the mouse. I 
remember thinking "maybe I need to rebuild this desktop." But the next time I 
inserted the disk it was unreadable. 
  I've seen a lot of disks mysteriouly expire between uses, but this was the 
first time I've actually seen peculiar behaviour right before it occurred. 
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

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