Oh, and all of the folders are empty. Obviously something went *VERY* wrong on this sucker. (I'm wondering if rebuilding the desktop file is what created these folders?)
Charlieman: Again, I can not boot from any floppy! When I try, the floppy gets spit out.
Dan 7.1: Unfortunately, at present, I don't have any external SCSI drive cases handy, my only accessible machine with accessible extra internal SCSI is my G3 server. Since it is entirely possible that the folder problem could be some funky old virus, I'm not willing to risk my server.
The guy it came from said that this machine is from quite a few years ago when he was a pretty heavy drug user, and had a couple "tweaker" roommates that, among other things, infected pretty much every machine he had with multiple viruses; and even went through and ripped RAM and processors out of machines to sell when he was in the hospital.
Oh, and I have now gotten rid of half the folders on the desktop, and the machine is much more responsive now. Only about two minutes of stalling after dragging folders to the trash. I can now also highlight multiple 'stacks' of folders at a time without making the machine come to a screeching halt like when I started, which means I can now drag multiple 'stacks' at once. Although emptying a trash with 2000 items in it takes an excruciatingly long time. (I've been waiting on the current one for 10 minutes, looks like it will take another 5. 'Preparing to empty' is the big time killer. It counts up to about 400 items pretty quick, then gets gradually slower, counting 10 at a time.)
Charlieman: Again, I can not boot from any floppy! When I try, the floppy gets spit out.
Dan 7.1: Unfortunately, at present, I don't have any external SCSI drive cases handy, my only accessible machine with accessible extra internal SCSI is my G3 server. Since it is entirely possible that the folder problem could be some funky old virus, I'm not willing to risk my server.
The guy it came from said that this machine is from quite a few years ago when he was a pretty heavy drug user, and had a couple "tweaker" roommates that, among other things, infected pretty much every machine he had with multiple viruses; and even went through and ripped RAM and processors out of machines to sell when he was in the hospital.
Oh, and I have now gotten rid of half the folders on the desktop, and the machine is much more responsive now. Only about two minutes of stalling after dragging folders to the trash. I can now also highlight multiple 'stacks' of folders at a time without making the machine come to a screeching halt like when I started, which means I can now drag multiple 'stacks' at once. Although emptying a trash with 2000 items in it takes an excruciatingly long time. (I've been waiting on the current one for 10 minutes, looks like it will take another 5. 'Preparing to empty' is the big time killer. It counts up to about 400 items pretty quick, then gets gradually slower, counting 10 at a time.)