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- From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Big problems - corrupted files
- Message-ID: <ibhan.726205545@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 03:45:45 GMT
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- I have a PowerBook Duo 230. My father has a Macintosh II. I was using
- his Mac II over the holidays, and discovered after a while that several
- files had become corrupted (including applications) and would not run. I
- bought MacTools 2.0 and scanned the disk. It gave me errors when it got
- to those files, and could not fix them. Apparently, the resource forks
- had become damaged. There was no trace of a virus.
- I have MacTools on my machine as well, and I'm well protected against
- any viruses. Today, the same thing happened to my machine. Some files
- just randomly became corrupted. I have no idea what caused this. It
- happened suddenly, and with no obvious cause. Also, it appears that
- several of my preferences have been reset (example - my modem program
- lost all its present numbers). Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
- I've never experienced anything like this before.
-
- -Turning off INIT's makes no difference
- -I can't repair any files.
- -Rebuilding the desktop doesn't help.
- -Reinstalling the system from scratch (deleting the old one first) doesn't
- help
- -Disk First Aid says all is fine
- -I'm running System 7.1 on both machines.
-
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- - Ishir Bhan - ibhan@husc.harvard.edu -
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- "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
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