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- From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Empty folder not empty and can't be trashed...traced.
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- Date: 31 Aug 1992 16:00:10 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Office of the President
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- In article <aland.715223409@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>,
- aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) wrote:
- > [earlier stuff deleted]
- > My guess is that Vantage Opener is keeping tabs on the file... If you
- > quit that, it might help. If this isn't the problem, I have no
- > idea...
- >
- > -=Alan
-
- I don't think that's the problem. Vantage Opener quits running as soon as
- it has passed the file to Vantage.
-
- I note, however, that I'm seeing this "empty folder can't be trashed" more
- and more frequently now, even when Vantage is not involved. Example -
- download a compressed archive of some sort, say it contains two components,
- an application and a doc file, inside a folder. Uncompress the archive.
- Print the document and then stuff it into your documentation archive or
- trash it. Move the application to a different folder on the drive. Now you
- have an empty folder, which you move to the trash. I find that about 3
- times out of 10, I won't be able to empty the trash - the "empty" folder
- will stay around until I reboot, at which time I'll be able to empty the
- trash.
-
- Most peculiar, also annoying because even if you're willing to leave the
- "empty" folder in the trash until you next reboot, you get an annoying
- dialog every time you try and empty the trash.
-
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- Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
- All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
- University wanted me to speak for it.
-