Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!seaman.cc.purdue.edu!ags From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Bogus DeskTop Entries (Was Re: Undeletable file) Message-ID: <8389@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 13 Mar 90 14:47:31 GMT References: <9811@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1511@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM> <13053@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) Distribution: na Organization: Purdue University Lines: 25 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. >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 I have seen this twice on my Mac II running 6.0.3: once with a MacWrite document and once with a HyperCard stack. In each case, I was able to fix the problem by opening the file with the appropriate application, writing out to a different file, and then deleting the original. The application saw nothing wrong with the file. -- Dave Seaman ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu