delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Wesley Delepierre) (07/06/90)
Here is an undocumented feature that was found in MacWeek. Run Disk First Aid from a floppy with a System, since it wont fix its own disk. After you have selected the disk you want to fix but before you press the start button press Command/S and a second progress window will appear below the utility window. Then press start. When finished any folder from hell should now be trashable. Wesly Delepierre Oregon State University delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (07/06/90)
In article <19211@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Wesley Delepierre) writes: >Here is an undocumented feature that was found in MacWeek. >Run Disk First Aid from a floppy with a System, since it wont fix its own disk. >After you have selected the disk you want to fix but before you press the start >button press Command/S and a second progress window will appear below the >utility window. Then press start. When finished any folder from hell should >now be trashable. My experience is that it doesn't work-- all that happens is that in the middle of the catalog file, Disk First Aid gives up claiming 'Cannot Verify status of disk'. Command-R, whatever that does, doesn't work either. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions? Hey! Bush has NO LIPS!
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (07/06/90)
In article <19211@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Wesley Delepierre) writes: > Here is an undocumented feature that was found in MacWeek. > Run Disk First Aid from a floppy with a System, since it wont fix its own disk. > After you have selected the disk you want to fix but before you press the start > button press Command/S and a second progress window will appear below the > utility window. Then press start. When finished any folder from hell should > now be trashable. Yet another example of the intuitive Mac interface, especially in software supplied by Apple... Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
jjoshua@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jon Joshua) (07/06/90)
I got a folder from hell the other day. I just copied another folder
with the same name to the window and overwrote the old one. I could
just delete the new folder and everything was ok.
JOn.
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_____________________________OO_____O___hfdhksjdhfksjdfs_______||__________||__jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (07/06/90)
In article <19211@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> delepiw@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Wesley Delepierre) writes: >Here is an undocumented feature that was found in MacWeek. >After you have selected the disk you want to fix but before you press the start >button press Command/S and a second progress window will appear below the >utility window. Then press start. When finished any folder from hell should >now be trashable. While Disk First Aid will often be able to fix a directory with the untrashable folder problem, all pressing command-S does is show the Scavenge window; it doesn't make any functional difference. -- ========= jeanne a. e. devoto ======================================== jdevoto@apple.com | You may not distribute this article under a jdevoto@well.sf.ca.us | compilation copyright without my permission. ______________________________________________________________________ Apple Computer and I are not authorized | CI$: 72411,165 to speak for each other. |