greggy@mcdhup.UUCP (Gregg Yedwab) (10/06/90)
Thank you to those who had time to respond to my request for
the exorcism of the folder from hell. Allow me to summarize
what was done to remove the folder:
The suggestions on the net (regarding some previous discussion
going on in this group) refered to expanding the amount of memory
the finder has available. I tried this; extending the finder memory
up to the 2.5M of available RAM in my Mac (less the space for
System 6.0.2). Of course this did not work.
What I ended up doing was creating a macro (using MacroMaker) that
opened up as many folders as the finder would allow. The macro
then trashed the folders that were opened in the previous step
(about 15 levels). The macro was recursive, and repeated the
above steps until it reached bottom. This took about 2 hours.
By my best calculation, the folder from hell was about 2300
levels deep.
But it was no match for the Macro From Hell!
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