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From: joseph@cooper.cooper.EDU (Joe Giannuzzi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Undeletable file
Message-ID: <2277@cooper.cooper.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 90 01:20:55 GMT
References: <13053@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
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in article <13053@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) says:
> 
> 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".
> 
	We are having this problem on a Mac II with a 140 Meg drive.
	We started getting files with the same name, files that couldn't
	be found, files that could be trashed but would then reappear,
	etc. Since all of these bad files were located in the system
	folder, I selected all the files and dragged them to a new
	system folder. Everything that couldn't be moved (the bad
	files) stayed in the old folder, which I then made invisible.

	I know that's an ugly thing to do, but its a temporary kludge
	until I get a chance to archive everything since the last
	backup, and restore the drive.

	Anyway, I remember reading someplace that there is a limit
	to the size of the Desktop file. This was never considered
	a problem because storage media just wasn't that big. Now
	it might be the cause of these problems. I am going to
	break the drive down into many partitions, hoping that
	this will solve the problem.

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