Re: Getting rid of invalid filename

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <1g9y3hy.rtxr9w1wmt18N%see_sig_for_valid_email@no.spam>,
 see_sig_for_valid_email@no.spam (Simon Williams) wrote:

> I seem to have acquired a badly named file on my HD - ".4.P" to be
> precise. No idea where it came from, but it won't go away... GS/OS &
> Prosel8 both generate a $0040 error when I try to
> delete/move/rename/repair the file. Any suggestions as to how to get rid
> of it???

OK, it's been way too long, but I think there is a trick in ProSel's Cat 
Doctor for getting rid of a file like that.

In Cat Doctor, Sort the directory that file is in, moving that file to 
the bottom of the directory.  When it's there, press Open-Apple Delete 
(or maybe it's just Delete or Control Delete or something like that.  
It's been too long to remember for certain.)  The file should go away.  
You'll probably want to verify the volume in Mr. Fixit(?) afterwards if 
that worked.

Otherwise, there is the disk editing option of Block Warden and renaming 
the file by editing the bytes in the directory entry.

Greg B.

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