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From: mdc@spt.entity.com (Marty Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell
Keywords: fun, fun, fun, 'til her daddy takes the keys away...
Message-ID: <307@spt.entity.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 23:29:31 GMT
References: <15543@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: mdc@spt.UUCP (Marty Connor)
Organization: Hacks 'R' Us, Cambridge, MA
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In article <15543@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> 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. 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.  

>Sherry
>yang@mist.CS.ORST.EDU
>Computer Science Department
>Oregon State University

Usualyy what is happening here is that there is an invisible file in
the folder.  Using a program like MacTools, you can view folders and
see all the files in them and set the invisible files visible.

The desk accessory called "DiskTop" will do the same thing.

If you have ever run TOPS you may have this problem.  The way they
used to do publishing of directories was to put invisible files in
directories.  Of course later, when it was time to kill the directory,
the finder who can see the invisible files, burps.

Give me a call if you are stumped.

Marty

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