On 11/9/2002 6:58 PM Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At 1:32 PM -0600 11/9/2002, Vaughan, John wrote: >>I've had this problem for a while, but I just got around to asking about it. >>I'm on an 8600/G4, running 9.2.2, but when I first noticed the problem, I >>was running 9.1. Problem has stayed consistent despite the upgrade. >> >>My file sharing will not turn on. When I start up, it starts "starting up", >>but it nevers gets so that it shows "file sharing on". It just stays set at >>"starting up" with the little blinking thing on the file sharing folder. >>I've trashed File Sharing prefs and the File Sharing CP Prefs folder, but >>that didn't change anything. Any suggestions? > > >This is usually due to a corrupt AppleShare PDS file. This is an >invisible file in the root folder of any shared harddisk. It stores >the sharing information for each folder. If it get's munged it can >cause File Sharing to never complete startup. > >To fix this you need a tool that will let you make an invisible file >visible. ResEdit is my tool of choice. Make the file visible, throw >it in the trash and then try starting up File Sharing. If it works >then go ahead and empty the Trash. If it doesn't you may want to >restore the file to it's original location and re-cloak it.
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