mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (06/10/88)
We have an old Mac+ -- 1Mb RAM, *serial* Apple HD20, System 3.2 and
corresponding Finder. The disk has about 17Mb used and shows about
1.4Mb free if you open a leaf level folder. (I've run PurgeIcons and
tried to get the Desktop rebuilt, so I don't know where the missing
1.6 Mb is, unless it's been lost to disk fragmentation.)
The strange part is that it quit booting off the hard disk recently.
The only remedy that seemed to work (other than booting off a floppy)
was to move the System file and Finder to the top level of the
hard disk.
I've tried other things like copying a new System Folder off the System
Tools disk (after saving the old one onto a spare floppy); using the
Installer (which complains that it can't find the System file on the
hard disk), etc., with no success.
A clue that might help is that when the System and Finder are in a folder,
if I open that folder and try to switch-launch the Finder (option-cmd-
double-click on Finder icon), I get a message about "unable to find the
file 'Finder'" or something like that, but if the System and Finder are in
the top level (or out on the desktop) I can do the switch-launch.
Any ideas what's going on and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Mike Khaw
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