jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) (12/10/88)
i've run into a problem with my mac II that i am unable to solve. I am unable to remove, rename or modify a particular folder on my desktop. somehow the file system on this hard disk has become corrupted. i'm certain the problem is not the disk drive. when i do try to perform operations on this folder, the mac claims that the folder is busy. worse... i am getting "no more memory" errors from my jasmine direct tape utility while setting up the dump parameters. i cannot rebuild the desktop since doing so also generates out of memory errors. i was hoping that rebuilding the desktop would allow me to remove the wierd folder. i have 8 meg of memory on my machine by the way, and 140 meg hard disk. any suggestions to correcting this problem? -- John T. Nelson UUCP: sun!sundc!potomac!jtn Advanced Decision Systems Internet: jtn@potomac.ads.com 1500 Wilson Blvd #512; Arlington, VA 22209-2401 (703) 243-1611 "The only thing more useless than a Faberge' egg is a coffee table picture book about Faberge' eggs"
dyson@Apple.COM (Patrick Dyson) (12/14/88)
In article <7434@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes: > >when i do try to perform operations on this folder, the mac claims >that the folder is busy. worse... i am getting "no more memory" >errors from my jasmine direct tape utility while setting up the dump >parameters. i cannot rebuild the desktop since doing so also >generates out of memory errors. i was hoping that rebuilding the >desktop would allow me to remove the wierd folder. Sometimes the catalog b-tree gets strangely linked and/or has wrong info. This is common when you are doing some sort of file i/o and the machine crashes. The other indications are long folder-open times in the finder and i/o errors when trying to change thr folder attributes. > As for what you can do, the first thing would be to run Disk First Aid. If it doesn't detect the error, or can't fix it, do a finder drag of all of the accessible files on the disk to another volume and re-initialize the disk. The only way to actually fix a badly linked b-tree other than Disk First Aid that I know of is FEdit and the HFS chapter... No easy matter! best of luck. Pat Dyson ----------------- Mine own opinions. Not of Apple.
vmrad@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0048;0000008326;500;737;56;) (12/14/88)
In article <7434@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes: > >i've run into a problem with my mac II that i am unable to solve. I >am unable to remove, rename or modify a particular folder on my >desktop. somehow the file system on this hard disk has become >corrupted. i'm certain the problem is not the disk drive. > > >i have 8 meg of memory on my machine by the way, and 140 meg hard >disk. I would assume you are running under Multi-Finder with a machine like this. Under this assumption... >any suggestions to correcting this problem? > Restart under Finder and try to re-build the desktop. The Multi-Finder partition for Finder is large enough for most operations. One of the few operations it is not large enough for is re-building a large disk. Good Luck.