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From: pnm@goanna.oz.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell
Message-ID: <2840@goanna.oz.au>
Date: 6 Feb 90 22:26:14 GMT
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Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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yang@mist.cs.orst.edu (Sherry Yang) writes:

>We have discovered a folder on one of the MacIIs in our lab that has nothing 
>in it, but it will not let us throw it away.  It kept coming back with a 
>"File busy or folder not empty" message.  ResEdit and MacTools don't do the 
>trick either.

You are not alone.  Some lucky person in our computer centre has an SE with
the same problem.  The folder has been made invisible.  I have noted on a
few occasions "near misses" to this problem.  Opening a folder, trashing its
contents, trashing the folder, then "empty trash" results in the same prob.
Even a second attempt (when there is nothing in the folder) fails.  It seems
to recover later, either due to a reboot or some other magical sequence.  I
too would be interested in the solution to the persistent folder.

Paul Menon
pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU
'So this is Interne...Christmas'