Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!sics.se!ollef
From: ollef@osiris.sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Folders from Hell -  Part II
Message-ID: <2687@osiris.sics.se>
Date: 27 May 89 01:50:26 GMT
References: <1989May25.094147.5884@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <2685@osiris.sics.se> <11696@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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In article <11696@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> samalone@athena.mit.edu (Stuart A.
Malone) writes:
>>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).

No, it doesn't work. I've tried with both version 1.2 and 1.41. Disk First Aid
says that the disk could not be verified. I've also tried DeskZap.


Todd Heatherton also writes:
>Should we just have her
>reinitialize her hard disk.  She is starting to have weird system crashes
>and is worried that existing files and programs will get messed up (she
>does have the whole thing backed up on tape).

 Are you sure that the backup does not contain the weird folder in embryo? 
If the backup does not contain the weird folder the answer is YES.
Otherwise: what sort of backup are you talking about?
 I've just removed my weird folder by reformatting the disk. I used DiskFit to
backup and restore all my files. Diskfit uses a file by file strategy so no
damaged file or folder could be copied. 
  If the backup is a facebackup (block by block) the problem will probably
show up again.

           /Olle