araftis@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alex Raftis) (03/15/90)
About a week ago, while working in TML Pascal II's desktop, I was returning to
the desktop from a program when I got a system error telling me, "System5.0.2
may have been damaged, please backup data." The problem here is that the file
I was working on got trashed, but my boots disk, where the seeming problem was,
was only full of applications. I went to the finder, and in an attemp to find
the bad file, I tried to verify every file on the disk, but when I tried to
get the finder to list the bad files, it locked.
Oh well, I thought, and I proceeded to re-initialize my primary boot volume.
This went fine, and I copied most of my applications back. Unfortunatly, since
I've done this, I've received the same system error again, but this time all
the files on the disk checked out, according to the Finder.
The major problem is that my Finder, and a few other programs are acting rather
strange. Many programs that I used without cliches before have developed bugs,
and the finder refuses to copy or more a file. Besides this, everything is
working fine.
Does anyone have any idea of what's going on with my system? I've verified the
hard disk with Copy II+, and it says there's nothing wrong there, so I'm stump-
ed. Any ideas would be appreciated.
My system is set up as follows:
1.5 Meg memory on a GS Ram card
1.0 ROM motherboard
Audio Animator in Slot #1 (Turned off at the time)
Transwarp GS Card in Slot #4
Vulcan Hard Drive Controller in Slot #6
Vulcan 40 meg hard drive with three partitions (1 5.0.2, 1 5.0 and 1 4.0)
Text reader NDA, no inits, Vulcan CDA.
P.S. My 4.0 partition can still copy files on the 5.0.2 partition without
prblems assuming the file does not have any resource fork.
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America Online: xela (Real Life: Alex Raftis)jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) (03/19/90)
Fun with the Finder... Open up a disk (preferably a RAMdisk - I'm not
sure what this does to memory), and create a new folder on it. Then rename
the folder "dir". Create a junk file on the drive (you can just copy some
small file onto it), and rename that "file". Now, select "file", and pick
"Duplicate" from the File menu. When asked for the name, type "dir:file", and
hit Ok. It'll work for a short time (duplicating the file), and then you'll
see a file in the window named "dir:file". Now, close the window. Then
re-open the same window. "dir:file" is gone (gasp!). Now open "dir" - there's
"file". I'd recommend re-booting after this, as I have no idea how confused
the Finder gets by this (if it gets confused at all...).
Why this happens: The colon (':') is used to separate entries in a
pathname. So, ":RAM5:dir:file" describes the file "file" in the folder "dir"
on the volume ":RAM5", and ":RAM5:file" describes the file "file" on the
volume ":RAM5". Now, when you tell it to duplicate "file" as "dir:file",
you're telling it to copy ":RAM5:file" to ":RAM5" + "dir:file" =
":RAM5:dir:file". So, it does that part properly, but it forgets to stick
the icon for the file somewhere else...
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Jason Blochowiak - jason@madnix.UUCP
or, try: astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jason@spool.cs.wisc.edu
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