klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen) (03/27/91)
A most unnerving thing happened to me yesterday. I was going to format a new floppy, while I was typing it`s name it was ejected and a message appeared: "Please insert the disk Vision". I did that, and finished typing the new name (Billeder 027). The mac then formatted the disk now in the drive. That was the start disk! The icon of Vision or any of the files on it did not turn gray, and no new disk icon appeared. Opening a folder and an application on Vision both failed with error -127. Ejecting the disk made the icons turn gray, reinserting it made an icon labeled Billeder 027 appear. A message also appeared: "Unable to completely rebuild desktop, file is missing". The disk was empty (no icons), but only 104k was available. When I was playing around with this the disk was ejected and "Please insert the disk Vision" appeared. I hit reset, and used another start disk. Same result: Billeder 027, no icons, 104K available. I tried looking at the disk with ResEdit. One file called desktop, 300 or so bytes. ResEdit called the disk Vision, so did finder when I quit ResEdit. The highlight behind the word Vision was much too broad, moving the icon moved only the proper highlight, leaving two black rectangles on the screen. I then wanted to format the disk again, but the Erase Disk command was gray. Chosing first the new start disk and then the problem disk made Erase Disk black, and also changed the name back to Billeder 027. Does anyone have an explanation for this? How can this be avoided in the future? I have a mac SE with 2 superdrives, no HD 1M ram, finder 6.1.5, system 6.0.5 Klaus Kristiansen