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From: heath@utpsych.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Folders from Hell -  Part II
Message-ID: <1989May27.180118.18134@utpsych.toronto.edu>
Date: 27 May 89 18:01:18 GMT
References: <1989May25.094147.5884@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <2685@osiris.sics.se> <11696@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: heath@psych.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton)
Organization: Psychology, U. of Toronto
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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).
>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.
>
This was completely unsuccesful since Disk First Aid said it was unable
to verify the disk.  The repair automatically feature didn't do a thing.
I have received detailed and excellent advice on fixing the problem
using resedit or SUM tools and will try this on Monday.  This is certainly
a strange problem, but from the mail I've received it apprears that it
is not a unique problem.  I will save net space by summarizing the
solution when one is found (and, of course, if all else fails I will
use a quick slap to the side of the computer--that always worked with
old televisions :-))

Thanks to all who have offered aid--it certainly is a puzzling case