[comp.sys.mac] Weird Problem/Mac Plus-MacWrite

steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) (12/09/88)

In our office, we have a Mac Plus which had a 400K
external disk drive attached. When our repair people
told us it would cost well over $100 to fix it, I
persuaded my boss to spend an extra $100 or so and
get an 800K drive. Today it arrived and I installed
it.

Since we only have double-sided disks, some were formatted
at 400K on that machine. I took a disk with MacWrite on it,
copied it into my hard disk on another machine, reformatted
the disk to 800K, and copied everything back onto the disk.

Then the user deleted many files so that there is about
500K free on the disk.

Now, when we try to create a new file from MacWrite,
we get a message saying that the disk is too full to
create a new file. However, if I open another file and
do a Save As, I can create a new file.

Does anyone have any insight into what's wrong?

Thanks,

Steve Goldfield
University of California at Berkeley
College of Engineering