Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!husc6!bochner From: bochner@zoom.harvard.edu (Harry Bochner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Bogus DeskTop Entries (Was Re: Undeletable file) Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 90 22:40:07 GMT References: <9811@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1511@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM> <13053@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Distribution: na Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University Lines: 35 In-reply-to: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM's message of 7 Mar 90 14:15:06 GMT In article <13053@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes: When we displayed the files "By Kind," the type of this file showed up as "document"; however, the TYPE of OTHER MacWrite documents showed up as "Beth's star distances". Rebuilding the desktop restored things to normal (I hope). So now I have a possible explanation. This behavior is reminiscent of a problem we've had on a Mac II that's accessible to students. Every few months it gets into a state where MacWrite Documents are described by the Finder as Kermit documents! I looked at the Desktop file's APPL resource with ResEdit, and found that while the correct entry for MACA (MacWrite's creator signiture) was still there, there was another entry earlier in the list that said the signiture MACA belonged to Kermit. There were also several more incorrect entries where the name of the application was garbled: TeachText has been affected several times. Since the machine is open to students, there's no telling what they've been runnning, and so I haven't tried to track down the corruption of the Desktop file, but could it be related to the bug that Andy Peterman reports below? In article <1511@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM> andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman) writes: >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. > Andy Peterman We do have files whose names have an apostrophe ("Eradicate'm" comes to mind :-), but we don't have 6.0.4 yet: I think we're running 6.0.3. Has anyone else seen a symptom like this? -- Harry Bochner bochner@endor.harvard.edu