Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ogccse!blake!rowen 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) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 25 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