Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis
From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Folders from Hell
Keywords: Folders that won't die
Message-ID: <2096@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 23:25:55 GMT
References: <1989May15.103346.5557@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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Sounds like a case of your directory sturcture being corrupted. The Folders
that Won't Die have a valence greater than zero even though there aren't
any files in them. There is a way to fix this, and I don't know how to do
it offhand. It would require some very careful perusal of Inside Mac Vol. 4
to figure out how to fix it.

I'd suggest that you back things up file-by-file and reformat the disk. That's
not a bad idea every once in a while anyway.

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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)