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From: bird@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (j.l.walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Trouble Using Finder to Copy
Message-ID: <13251@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Feb 90 02:13:41 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I don't generally use the finder to copy files, however, I was
afraid some of the files on the isk I was copying to my hard disk
might have resource forks so I decided to use the finder. Here is
my problem:

1. Use oa-a to select all files in the source and then use the
   mouse to drag the whole kit-and-caboodle over to the
   destination screen where I click on the subdirectory of choice.
   Everything works wonderfully. No errors of any kind.

2. If I first open the desination subdirectory and then repeat all
   the steps from step 1 except I click on a blank space at the
   destination screen and all files are copied with one fatal
   difference: Running Mr. Fixit shows that all the copied files
   memory blocks are idle and subject to overwrite by subsequent
   uses of memory. (Which happened in one case where the finder
   data file was the culpert.)

Question, is this the way things are supposed to work or is my
finder corrupted in some way? (I posted earlier that my  one or
more of my cdevs had become corrupted and/or missing which caused
Sound Smith to blow up.)


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