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- From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: not-so-neat bug in human found
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 19:01:27 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- "neat bug", eh ?!? NOT !
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- more likely "a virus".... ;-)
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- rudolph@unixg.ubc.ca (Christopher E Rudolph) writes:
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- >I have found a wierd bug that causes any folder that begins with a 'U' or
- >a 'u' becomes invisible to the user. Even applications don't show it.
- >However if you know the name, or part of the name, of the folder you can
- >use the FileFinder or FindPro II to make the file visible again. Once you
- >cause a screen update the folder gets hidden again. This seems only to
- >work on external drives.
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- run DiskFirstAid, make sure it is the latest version (7.1) and
- expect to find it reporting a problem on your (one?) external disk.
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- Most likely you'll get lucky and 7.1 will offer to fix it for you
- (older versions won't).
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- oh, and next time, don't speculate on what you found, just report
- your observations; save us all the scare (and yourself the ridicule :-)
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