phil@mit-amt (a phil sohn) (08/31/88)
I crashed the hard disk on one of our Mac II and would like some help recovering it. All the files are still there, but they are not visible from the finder, only from SFGetFile boxes and such. I have tried rebuilding the desktop to no avail. I am not looking forward to putting all the files on floppies or some other medium. phil
bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) (08/31/88)
> I crashed the hard disk on one of our Mac II and would > like some help recovering it. All the files are still there, > but they are not visible from the finder, only from SFGetFile > boxes and such. I have tried rebuilding the desktop to no avail. > I am not looking forward to putting all the files on floppies or > some other medium. Most strange - from the description you give, it sounds like the Invisible flag for all files has been turned on. You can use ResEdit to change all the flags (slow and tedious, especially on a hard disk), or you can modify the program given in Tech Note 68 to turn off the invisible bit for all the programs on the disk. (If Tech Notes/programming tools are not available, let me know directly and I'll try to send you the program). (If you have MPW you can probably use the SetFile tool and regular expressions to do the same thing, with less work). The other possibility is that all the files are very far off the screen, but rebuilding the desktop should have fixed this. If the scroll bars are empty on the desktop, the files are invisible; if they are not the files are way, way, way out there. (obligitory warnings) If you do get the files back, tread lightly, as they may not be what you think they are. They should be backed up, the disk initialized, and the files restored, if at all possible. > phil Bob Hablutzel BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU
m206003@melbcae.edu.au (09/01/88)
In article <2982@mit-amt> phil@mit-amt (a phil sohn) writes: > I crashed the hard disk on one of our Mac II and would >like some help recovering it. All the files are still there, >but they are not visible from the finder, only from SFGetFile >boxes and such. I have tried rebuilding the desktop to no avail. >I am not looking forward to putting all the files on floppies or >some other medium. > > > phil I suggest you try the following. Boot the machine from floppy, with a disk containing the latest system and finder and a program that lets you delete files, like MacTools, ResEdit etc. Make this program the startup application. This should launch you into the program, and the mac II's hard disk should appear. Proceed to DELETE the desktop on the Mac II. Sometimes rebuilding the desktop is not enough. You won't lose anything that isn't already on the harddisk, maybe some icons from programs that you have trashed, maybe a few comments, but after deleting the desktop, then quiting and allowing the system build a new one should return your hard disk into working order. It doesn't sound like you've trashed your volume table, so I think that the desktop is your only trouble, anyway if it fails, you haven't really done any extra damage to your hard disk. ** DISCLAIMER ** Her mind is tiffany twisted She got the mercedes bends She's got a lot of pretty pretty boys She calls friends How they danced in the court yard Sweet summer sweat Some dance to remember Some dance to forget Lord Vader Answers to : (George Stamatopoulos) mvax::m206003 at mvax::vader Melbourne College of Advanced Education. <Carlton Campus>