nrunyon%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Neil Runyon) (07/22/90)
I was recently going through my 3.5" disks when my screen went to garbage. When I rebooted my Hard Drive I found that the applications that I had left on my desktop had been put back into their folders, except for 3 programs. When I try to put them into a folder I get the following error message; System Error Can't complete this operation #8051 I tried replacing my system, but that didn't help. If I boot from my 3.5 I can do the operations on the 3.5 disk, but I still get the same error on the Hard Drive...any ideas what may be up?? Thanks, Neil Runyon ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil M. Runyon CyberSpace - Watch out for AI, they will rip U of U - CS Dept your eyes out...along with a nrunyon@peruvian.utah.edu few other vital body parts.
dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) (07/23/90)
In article <1990Jul21.173532.20068@hellgate.utah.edu> nrunyon%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Neil Runyon) writes: >I was recently going through my 3.5" disks when my screen went to >garbage. When I rebooted my Hard Drive I found that the applications that >I had left on my desktop had been put back into their folders, except for >3 programs. When I try to put them into a folder I get the following error >message; > System Error > Can't complete this operation > #8051 Sounds like the system detected damage in the Root directory of your disk while it was trying to write out the Finder.Data file. This would explain things getting "put away"--Finder.Data records what files from the main directory are pulled out onto the desktop, as well as where they're arranged in the window. The directory is probably damaged in a minor way (bad file count), and a disk repair program like Mr. Fixit will probably have no trouble restoring it to a Happy State. -- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems Apple II Developer Technical Support | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.