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From: rowen@blake.acs.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: undeletable folder--help?
Message-ID: <3762@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 89 19:09:36 GMT
Reply-To: rowen@blake.UUCP (Russell Owen)
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Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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I have a folder I simply cannot delete. When I try, it says
"The trash couldn't be emptied (a file was busy or a folder was not empty)"
I have tried the following several times each:
- rebuild the desktop (no help)
- reorganizing the disk with DiskExpress (no help)
- reorganizing the disk with SilverLining (no help)
- Apple's DiskFirstAid (no problems found)
- Booting off of other systems, including 5.3 and a bare (no inits) 6.0.3

I have a Mac Plus with 2.5Mb RAM and am using System 6.0.3

The folder originally contained a corrupted copy of QuickKeys
(another cute problem--that QuickKeys was working just fine,
but it had somehow grown to 4.5Mb, from its proper,
fully-loaded-with-my-key-definitions size of 170Mb).
The trouble started when I threw the folder+file out--the file
was correctly deleted, but the folder got into this wierd state.

I can simply initialize the disk and rebuild, but would rather not
just for one stupid folder, at least until I've heard from the net.
Any suggestions?

Thanks
-- Russell Owen
internet: owen@phast.phys.washington
bitnet: owen@uwaphast