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From: samalone@athena.mit.edu (Stuart A. Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Folders from Hell -  Part II
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Date: 26 May 89 20:13:59 GMT
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>Todd Heatherton writes:
>
>Summary of Problem - Five folders which will not disappear off an FX-60.
>The five folders are empty except one which had an invisible file.  All
>folders report being inited and changing that does not allow them to
>be killed.  

I'm pretty sure the program you need is Disk First Aid, which comes on one of
the Utilities disks from Apple.  I've found it to be effective against
mysteriously disappearing disk space (which happens only when I write buggy
Pascal code) and against Folders from Hell (which seems to happen at random).
These problems are different from the file recovery problems that other disk
utilities are designed to solve.

Boot from a floppy containing a System, Finder, and Disk First Aid.  Do not use
MultiFinder.  Run Disk First Aid, select the troublesome disk and click "Open",
check off the "Repair Automatically" menu option, and click "Start".  (If you
would like to see some status messages, you can type Command-S before you click
"Start", but this isn't necessary.)  Disk First Aid should solve your problem.

				--Stuart A. Malone
				samalone@athena.mit.edu