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From: CHOOPER@acad.cut.oz (Todd Hooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My machine is possessed - Folder from Hell
Message-ID: <1945@acad.cut.oz>
Date: 9 Feb 90 01:34:24 GMT
References: <15543@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <2840@goanna.oz.au>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <2840@goanna.oz.au>, pnm@goanna.oz.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon) writes:
> 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.

I've had this trouble now and then, and it has always been fixed by rebuilding
the Desktop i.e. exit an application with command + option held down, then
trashing the affected folder or file.

If that doesn't work, I don't know what else you could do. Sprinkle some
holy water around? or more likely sacrifice a virgin to your Mac......;-)

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