psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) (10/11/89)
I had a problem deleteing a folder today. I was trashing a folder that contained many folders and files. One of the folders would not trash even though all the files inside were gone. It was the last thing that I was using the day yesterday. I decided to use DeskZap to see if there was an invisible open file. It opened up inside the folder. Once I closed it, I could delete it. It seems under Multifinder that the last folder you use with DeskZap does not get closed properly when DeskZap if the DA Handler is closed instead of Quitting from DeskZap. I was using DeskZap 1.2. Does any one know of a more recent version or a fix. I am using and SE/30 with 5meg, 40 meg HD, System 6.0.4. Reply to one of the addresses below unless you think the net would like what you have to say.. Richard Crispin Dept. of Psychology Bitnet: psych@watdcs University of Waterloo Unix : psych@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3G1 (519)885-1211 ext 2879
Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (10/13/89)
Richard Crispin writes: > I had a problem deleteing a folder today. I was trashing a > folder that contained many folders and files. One of the > folders would not trash even though all the files inside > were gone. There was some discussion of this not too long ago here, and someone came up with a suggestion I hadn't thought of: if you have DiskTop, use that to delete the folder. (If you don't have DiskTop, get it. :)) There was some perfectly reasonable technical explanation for why DT can delete folders the Finder won't, but I don't remember what that was. Can anyone re-explain? --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
Bruce.Gerson@f823.n102.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bruce Gerson) (10/14/89)
It hasn't been my experience that DiskTop will delete folders which the Finder cannot. If the Finder alerts you that the folder cannot be deleted because it contained files which were busy or locked, then DiskTop won't delete them either. A way around this is to use the DeskZap DA to close the open file(s) in the folder in question (usually an open file IS the problem here). The Finder still may not let you delete the folder but you WILL be able to delete the file(s). Once you run your next application and quit back to the Finder (or use DiskTop from within the application), you will be able to delete that pesky folder. -- Bruce Gerson via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!102!823!Bruce.Gerson INET: Bruce.Gerson@f823.n102.z1.FIDONET.ORG