dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) (05/13/88)
Thanks to everyone who replied to me via E-mail about the Desktop file -- it has been very illuminating as well as useful. FYI here is additional info about the other invisible file I found on my HD: It's name is InvisHDBo3bMain, and it seems to be related to a shareware DA I pulled off of com.binaries.mac a wekk or so ago called DiscLock. I imagine that it has something to do with locking the hard disc.
avalon@ssyx (Scott A. McIntyre) (05/14/88)
+-In article <440009@hpdstma.HP.COM>, dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) wrote:- +---------- >Thanks to everyone who replied to me via E-mail about the Desktop file -- >it has been very illuminating as well as useful. FYI here is additional >info about the other invisible file I found on my HD: > >It's name is InvisHDBo3bMain, and it seems to be related to a shareware >DA I pulled off of com.binaries.mac a wekk or so ago called DiscLock. I >imagine that it has something to do with locking the hard disc. +---------- That file is a invisible record of backups that you have done on your hard drive. If you use Apple's HD backup program, it will create this file as a record of when you last did backups, like a date stamp, so you can do a local backup, and not a global. I use Fastback, as far as I know, it does not make a invisible file, if it bothers you that it exists. Plus, Fastback is just that - fast. I recently like last night, had a MAJOR problem with my mac. Somehow, an invisible file was taking up quite a bit of space, namely, 3 megs. I could not locate the file with ANY utility program that I own, so I backed up with Fastback, reformatted, and restored...no problem! The whole process took about an hour. Hope this helps, Scott -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- avalon@ssyx.ucsc.edu ARPA/Internet \ or > Me! avalon@ucsck.BITNET Bitnet / "Hey, when you can't trust your basic Pulse Rifle when hunting down a Xenomorph, what's the Universe coming to?" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke) (05/14/88)
In article <440009@hpdstma.HP.COM> dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) writes: >It's name is InvisHDBo3bMain, and it seems to be related to a shareware >DA I pulled off of com.binaries.mac a wekk or so ago called DiscLock. I >imagine that it has something to do with locking the hard disc. I've also seen this file after using HFS backup, I think. David M. O'Rourke +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | dorourke@polyslo | Disclaimer: All opinions in this message are mine, but | | | if you like them they can be yours too. | | | Besides I'm just a student so what do I | | | know! | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | When you have to place a disclaimer in your mail you know it's a sign | | that there are TOO many Lawyer's. | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
6029334@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Robert G. Trevor) (05/15/88)
In article <440009@hpdstma.HP.COM>, dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller) writes: >Thanks to everyone who replied to me via E-mail about the Desktop file -- >it has been very illuminating as well as useful. FYI here is additional >info about the other invisible file I found on my HD: > >It's name is InvisHDBo3bMain, and it seems to be related to a shareware >DA I pulled off of com.binaries.mac a wekk or so ago called DiscLock. I I think that you'll find its created by the Apple supplied hard disk backup utility. To convince yourself, make a copy of it and look at it with a text editor (after changing it to visible). From memory it contains the date of the last backup. Rob Trevor MaBell: (609) 452-4051 Bitnet: 6029334@PUCC UseNet: 6029334@PUCC.Princeton.Edu
wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) (05/15/88)
> >It's name is InvisHDBo3bMain, and it seems to be related to a shareware This is the file made by HDBackup when you backup your harddisk. This is how ittells when the last time you backed up you harddisk and when so it can do incrementals. (The program was written by Bo3b, incedentally. Pierce WEtter ---------------------------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu Race For Space Grand Prize Winner. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Useless Advice #986: Never sit on a Tack.
alan@Apple.COM (Alan Mimms) (05/16/88)
That file is created by the "HD Backup" program when you back up your hard disk. Its job is to identify the last date and time a backup was performed. It is NOT a virus file, unless someone has cleverly designed a virus to use a file of that name to hold their little bombshell. Perhaps a little poking around with ResEdit will tell the tale? alan -- Alan Mimms My opinions are generally Communications Products Group pretty worthless, but they *are* my own... (27 8x10 color glossies are available)
freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk) (05/19/88)
In article <6546@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes: >(The program was written by Bo3b, incedentally. >Pierce WEtter Incidental question: why is this person called "Bo3b" instead of "Bob"? Has it something to do with MacinTalk? I asked myself this same question when I read tech. notes 134 and 139. -- Freek Wiedijk <the pistol major> UUCP: uunet!mcvax!uva!freek #P:+/ = #+/P?*+/ = i<<*+/P?*+/ = +/i<<**P?*+/ = +/(i<<*P?)*+/ = +/+/(i<<*P?)**
shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker) (05/20/88)
In article <321@uva.UUCP> freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk) writes: !In article <6546@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes: !!(The program was written by Bo3b, incedentally. !!Pierce WEtter ! !Incidental question: why is this person called "Bo3b" instead of "Bob"? !Freek Wiedijk <the pistol major> UUCP: uunet!mcvax!uva!freek I believe the "3" is silent. (Possibly from an old Tom Lehrer song.) Shane Looker shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu uunet!umix!pepe.cc.umich.edu!shane Looker@um.cc.umich.edu
spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) (05/20/88)
I think Bo3b himself mentioned (in tech tidbits, i think..?) that its
pronounnced "Bob" and that the "3" is silent. Very "Californian".
:-)
David
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"What computer can do work like this?" "Hire us and we'll tell you."sqphil@csvax.liv.ac.uk (05/24/88)
In article <650022@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>, spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) writes: > > I think Bo3b himself mentioned (in tech tidbits, i think..?) that its > pronounnced "Bob" and that the "3" is silent. Very "Californian". > > > :-) > David > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > David HM Spector New York University > Senior Systems Programmer Graduate School of Business > Arpa: SPECTOR@GBA.NYU.EDU Academic Computing Center > UUCP:...!{allegra,rocky,harvard}!cmcl2!spector 90 Trinity Place, Rm C-4 > MCIMail: DSpector New York, New York 10006 > AppleLink: D1161 CompuServe: 71260,1410 (212) 285-6080 > "What computer can do work like this?" "Hire us and we'll tell you." Try listening to a piece by Tom Lehrer (in his album "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer" from the 1960's) in which he describes somebody known as Henry. "Henry was an individualist. He spelled his name H E N 3 R Y. - the three was silent you see." As I recall Hen3ry was taken away to the Massachusetts State Home For The Bewildered..." Sorry about the spellings and stuff, but I don't have a dictionary handy... just before they took him he uttered the following line... "Life is Like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it" - Tom Lehrer. Phil Jimmieson, **************************************************** Computer Science Dept., * JANET : SQPHIL@UK.AC.LIV.CSVAX * Liverpool University, * UUCP : {backbone}!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!SQPHIL * Merseyside, England, * ARPA : SQPHIL%csvax.liv.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk * **************************************************** (UK) 051-709-6022 x 2501 Disclaimer: Nobody around here listens to a word I say _anyway_ ...
paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) (05/24/88)
In article <321@uva.UUCP> freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk) writes: #In article <6546@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes: #>(The program was written by Bo3b, incedentally. #>Pierce WEtter # #Incidental question: why is this person called "Bo3b" instead of "Bob"? #Has it something to do with MacinTalk? #I asked myself this same question when I read tech. notes 134 and 139. # #-- # As far as I've heard.... when you have MacinTalk pronounce Bo3b, it comes out something like Booooob (as in: 'I need you here, right away') Kind of a desperate cry for that person. Seems like he was very well know for all the people in the Apple building crying out for him when they needed something. But I could be mistaken... Paul Molenaar "Just checking the walls" - Basil Fawlty - -- Paul Molenaar "Just checking the walls" - Basil Fawlty -