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From: wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell
Message-ID: <2080@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 15:00:09 GMT
References: <15543@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL
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In article <15543@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> yang@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Sherry Yang) writes:
>I am not sure if this subject has been discussed on the net before or not, but
>I have discovered this problem recently and hope someone out there can help me.
>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. Does any of you have any ideas on how we can throw the possessed 
>folder away?  Until then, it's appropriately named "Satan" on the harddisk.  

I have seen this several times before. I don't  understand why it happens but I
know a clutsy way to get rid of it.

Try dragging to the trash while holding the command or option key (I forget
which it is that works). then after it is in the trash, hit the restart key on
the programmers switch.

This has worked for me but if anyone knows of side effects useing this
technique, I would like to hear of them.

Hope this is useful.






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