ddl683@sarah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man) (06/19/91)
I hope someone can help me figure this one out, because it's driving me crazy. About fifteen minutes ago I crashed out of HyperCard 2.1, rebooted the machine from MacsBug, and upon entering the Finder, half my folders were missing. (This is System 7, btw.) None of the missing folders are accessable via the usual alternate methods (DiskTop, ResEdit, SFOpenDbox, for example). I rebuilt the Desktop, still no luck. However, the drive statistics still reflect the disk as it was; i.e., there's as much space left on the drive as there was before the crash, it hasn't been freed up yet. The software that does show up runs fine. Here's the weirdest part of it: if I do a File menu "Find", for say, ResEdit, which was in my now-missing Utilities folder, it WILL open the folder, and the Utilities folder will magically appear on my drive again in the Finder! And the second I close ResEdit's folder, the Utilities folder will disappear! before my eyes! The same thing applies to a few other programs -- Microsoft Word, for example. HyperCard can NOT be found by this method. I am clueless. How is "Find" discovering, and activating, files that no other method will? How did they disappear in the first place? And of course, how can I get them back?! I'm still new enough to System 7 that its quirks are not second nature yet, and I'm very hesitant to use any of my old disk recovery tools on my Sys7 HD. Does ANYONE have an idea what's goin' on? Please help if you can! thanks, Derek L. Specs: Macintosh IIci, 8 MB RAM, 80 MB Quantum internal HD, Apple CD-ROM, ethernet card, 13" high-res monitor on built-in video. System 7.0, a dozen extensions (the only recent addition was "Switch", taken from comp.binaries.mac). -- + + "When nothing else remains, one must scream. Silence is the ultimate + + + crime against humanity." -- Nadezhda Mandelstam + + _______________ [ ACME DISCLAIMER CO. PART NO. 2830-1512 ] _______________ + + "I'm going back to knitting. Fetch me the damned knitting needles." <<-Sho +
ddl683@sarah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man) (06/19/91)
Following up to my own message, here are more weirdnesses: Tried to drag one of the remaining folders to the Desktop: "The folder "Graphics" could not be moved, because it could not be found." or alternately: "This operation could not be completed, because an error of type -127 occurred." --- New folders created will last about two seconds before they disappear from the hard drive's window. They do NOT disappear from the Desktop, nor from subfolders. I am very very VERY worried. I'm glad my networking programs are still available... so far. Derek L. -- + + "When nothing else remains, one must scream. Silence is the ultimate + + + crime against humanity." -- Nadezhda Mandelstam + + _______________ [ ACME DISCLAIMER CO. PART NO. 2830-1512 ] _______________ + + "I'm going back to knitting. Fetch me the damned knitting needles." <<-Sho +