etherton@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil (Etherton) (09/05/90)
My Mac IIx woke up this morning with many of the files in the system folder invisible, (system, finder, and many inits and prefs files). Everyting boots and runs fine. It turns out that all files with names begining with "e" or higher in alphabet are not seen. If i add a file with said names they also disappear. I've tried rebuilding the desktop and looking for them with ResEdit. System is 6.0.3. Anyone have any ideas or help? (Disinfectant shows no virus)
hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen) (09/08/90)
>Everyting boots and runs fine. It turns out that all files with names >begining with "e" or higher in alphabet are not seen. This is a classic symptom of damage to your disk directory. You may want to run Apple's Disk First Aid (located on Utilities Disk 1) to see if it can do something to fix your drive. Most likely it will just tell you that it is unable to verify the status of your disk. In that case, run (do not walk) and go buy a copy of the Norton Utilities for the Mac. It's only been out a little over a month and it's already saved my rear end a number of times... Definately worth the $$$. (MacTools Deluxe and SUM II have some nice features, but Norton definately excels on both disk repair and optimization. Heck, I ought to write an article comparing the three of them, considering that I own them all :-) ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / Robert Hammen | Macintosh enthusiast & publishing guru, looking for a job / / hammen@ddsw1.mcs.com | 70701.2104@compuserve.com | GEnie: R.HAMMEN / /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////