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From: stowekeller@pro-carolina.cts.com (Stowe Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: GS/OS 5.0 (sic) bug?
Message-ID: <8908090934.AA05629@trout.nosc.mil>
Date: 9 Aug 89 06:51:31 GMT
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Paul Stenquist on Compuserve reported a problem which this evening I too
experienced with System 5.0: in the Finder, dragging around a couple of
folders at once and setting them down somewhere (and it may or may not involve
dropping them into another folder) can result in having those folders get
deleted.  I'm obviously not enthusiastic about trying to recreate this problem
alot, because I have had to repeatedly backup/restore my system and re-install
System 5.0 about half a dozen times now and I still can't get it to work
reliably (and YES, I'M USING APPLE'S INSTALLER!!!).  This is insane!  When I
lost those dozen folders, it made my hard disk unbootable because it blew
away the ProDOS file, the SYSTEM folder, and several other system-critical
directories.  I am so fed up with all this the headaches I've had with 5.0
I'm seriously considering going back to 4.0 for a few months or until someone
can convince that Apple has straightened out these problems.
 
        Boy, do I wish I got paid by the hour to beta-test Apple's software,
I'd be in much better financial shape now!

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Stowe Keller                            Author of ProDOS8 LIST utility
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