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From: markham@rho.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: How to delete file with empty data and resource forks
Keywords: FEdit, Disk First Aid, Excel, HexDump
Message-ID: <11887@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 18:14:03 GMT
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Here is one of those "I can't delete this file" problems, with a new 
twist (I think).  There is this Excel file that seems to be giving us a little
problem.  First of all, if you try to open or delete the file from within
Excel, you get a "Can't read file: filename. File not found" error.  Ok, so
let's try just deleting the file.  Throw it in the trash and empty it and the
file returns with no error messages.  How about Disk First Aid:  "Unable to
verify volume".  Next, we will rebuild the desktop:  nothing changes, file
still cannot be deleted.  Try to look at the file with FEdit and you get
"This file cannot be displayed because neither the data fork or resource fork
have disk sectors allocated."  Now try to delete file with FEdit and get a
"Disk Error: -43     Disk Sector: 0   File not found."
I used HexDump to view the contents of the file and got:
"Data Fork:
 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 Resource Fork:
 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"


Any ideas????
Or better yet, any suggestions????

Please e-mail all responses.

Thanks in advance!

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