roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (06/18/90)
In the past week, I've seen two strange incidents which appear very
similar. On somebody else's II-cx running 6.0.3 (or maybe it's 6.0.2?)
without MF, they had a floppy disk which had a single MS-Word 4.0 file on
it. I could put the floppy in the drive and the disk icon would show up,
and I could drag it back into the trash to unmount it. If, however, I
double-click on the MS-Word file, Word starts up and complains that it can't
open the file, complaining it is open or busy. At that point, if I quit
Word, I can no longer unmount the floppy. Dragging the icon into the trash
ejects the disk, but leaves the grey-out icon on the desktop. Dragging the
ghost icon into the trash is a noop. A twin II-cx on the victim's office
mate's desk acts the same way with this floppy.
A couple of days later, I discovered on my II-cx running 6.0.5 with
MF and the sonic finder (and the usual assortment of too many inits; Sum
shield, MacPassword, and a bunch others I can't think of right now) that I
had two ghost disk icons on my desktop which I couldn't do anything with.
Any click on either of them resulted in a "please insert the disk..." box,
which could be dismissed by Command-., leaving the ghost icon still on the
desktop (i.e. no change in status). I had to restart to get rid of them.
Any guesses what's going on? Are these related incidents (i.e.
some new strain of virus) or just freak occurances that happened to happen
around the same time?
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