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- From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Error -39 in ALL apps
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 13:41:25 PST
- Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
- Message-ID: <0105010A.n3os42@salient.com>
- Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
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- In article <1992Dec31.212522.2808681921@ultramac.uucp> (comp.sys.mac.system), vuori@netcom.com (Veikko Vuorikoski) writes:
- | I had this strange problem this morning after I started my IIsi:
- |The system started up normally, but when I tried to run any application,
- |(except ZTerm) I received an Error -39 message, which means "End of File;
- |no additional data in the format". When I checked the program's
- |Get Info dialog, any of them didn't have a default size, and application
- |memory was set to zero. I managed to start Disinfectant, and it told me
- |that most files had a damaged resource fork(I didn't scan all, just the
- |first ones). I tried Norton Utilities emergency disk, and it found
- |nothing wrong. Then I restarted the computer and most programs were
- |working perfectly and Disinfectant found nothing. However, Norton
- |Utilities on my hard disk stopped working, but a working copy of it
- |appeared in the AutoDoubler resuced items folder, and BunchTyper (program
- |for changing type and creator of multiple files) stopped working. Oddly,
- |Disinfectant and Virusdetective were slower than normally when I scanned
- |the disk, and Norton DiskLight showed some writing operations while virus
- |detectors were scanning the disk.
- | I also noticed that problem had only appeared in files
- |compressed with AutoDoubler (I'm using version 1.0.7i). I noticed this
- |because the System Errors application, which was in Apple menu still
- |worked.
- | Coul this be an AutoDoubler bug or something else? Ideas?
- |Please respond before ZTerm and MacLayers go down :-)
- |
- ...
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- Sounds like you are using the SUM Optimizer to optimize your disk.
- This is the only optimizer that has ever done this. This optimizer
- is obsolete so there is no fix other than to get the Symantec upgrade
- to Norton Utilities 2.0.
-
- NOTE: Whenever you run a low level utility on your drive you should
- ALWAYS boot with the boot floppy that comes with the utility so that
- you are running with a "clean" system (no extensions).
-
- for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com
- for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
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- NOTE: Detailed announcements of updates are made to "comp.sys.mac.announce".
- New patchers/updaters uploaded are: AutoDoubler Internal Compressor updater
- on 28 December 1992 approx 17:00 PST.
-