MacOS 7.x problem

[Steven Hirsch]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Jason McBrien wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The MacUser directory is fine - both data and resource forks are as
>> expected.  However, no matter what I've tried 'Diagnostic1' simply does not
>> show up in the finder.  I'm sure it's something basic, but I'm not much of
>> an ancient Mac guru.
>>
>
> Wild guess, but might be a custom folder icon that's having it's resource
> fork blown away? Did you try rebuilding the desktop on the 68k machine? I'm
> not sure if it's possible, but you might try doing the same on the netatalk
> share.

Good thought, but there is no icon information in the netatalk metadata 
(it has a dedicated file for desktop info).  I believe this is something 
much more basic.


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