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From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: folders that won't go away
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Date: 14 Jul 88 14:39:10 GMT
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In article <2895@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>
>the summary-header says it all, really.  Anything that I try to "trash"
>and the system won't let me, goes into that special folder.  The unfortunate
>aspect, however, is, that I throw lots of stuff away, and when I finally
>do an EMPTY-the-TRASHCAN, some things get (by BAD MAGIC) put back into some
>folder, hidden many levels deep - and NOT ONLY AM NOT GETTING TOLD WHICH ONES,
>I ALSO HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE INSULT OF HAVING TO DIG AROUND FOR NOT KNOWING
>WHAT !!!!!
> ...
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This misses the point,  The things you are claiming can't get chucked just
appear to the finder to be busy or open, and clear after reboot.  The folders
we are discussing never fix themselves.  The attribute listing contents just
doesn't get better.

In a related vein, I was the one who reccomended the low-tech solution of
just putting in a throw-away-able file to raise the count to zero. Someone
then commented that this makes the disk unverifiable by DFA.  I have had
my drive in this state (unverifiable) for some time, but did not know the
cause (I didn't try DFA till long after my low-tech fix).  If this fix is
indeed the problem, then I probably would not recommend the fix.

DOes anyone at Apple have a guess why this is happening?  Any easy way to
fix the verifiability problem without reformatting?

Josh

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