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From: andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Undeletable file
Keywords: pascal
Message-ID: <1511@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 90 17:49:21 GMT
References: <9811@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman)
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Organization: Grass Valley Group, Inc.; PVD
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In article <9811@portia.Stanford.EDU> m_rhoten@portia.Stanford.EDU (matt rhoten) writes:
>Hi guys. I accidentally left a bug in a program I'm writing which didn't
>check to see whether a certain filename was defined before using it. The
>result was a file on my disk with an odd filename. It can't be renamed or
>moved - the Finder gives me 'File not found.' It can be thrown away. When
>I empty the trash, it goes away - only to reappear when the window it's
>in is closed and reopened. DiskTop 1.2 can't delete it - File not found.
>...

Hmmm, this sounds like a similar problem I was having a few months ago.
I suddenly was finding files that weren't there.  Some programs could
read them and some couldn't find them.  They couldn't be deleted by
anything.  However, Finder and others would always show them in
file lists.  All of these files were created by MPW 3.1 under System
6.0.4.  When this started to get worse, I finally backed up all the
programs and rebuilt the hard disk.  I then remembered talking to
someone else using the same MPW and System having a similar problem.  
He said that under System 6.0.4, there was a bug in the file manager
that would do strange things (like corrupting or destroying files) if
there was a file with an apostrophe in it.  I then went back to MPW 3.0
and System 6.0.3 (paranoia!!) and have since had no problems.   

I'm wondering if any of these symptoms match yours?  If more files show
up like that, you might consider re-initializing your HD.  Good luck...

	Andy Peterman