thompson@oberon.UUCP (mark thompson) (06/20/85)
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Well, I finally had a disk become 'bad' to the finder. I cannot recreate
the situation because (of course) a lot was going on (ramdisks, neon,
mockword, etc). The upshot is the system died, and after rebooting,
refused to read my source disk which I had no backup of (of course).
The interesting part of this is that the finder offered to fix it
(no surprise), but after mucking about for a while, said it couldn't
write the desktop (disk locked?). Old finder did the same thing (with
different dialogs).
Finally, I cloned the disk and used FEDIT to mash the name DeskTop into
something else. VIOLA' the finder can fix it now! Interresting. The data
seems to all be there...
If anybody at apple wants to do an autopsy on the dead disk, I will
cheerfully send them the original.
Next project: a disk recoverer (ala' Norton Utilities).
-mark
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