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Beige G3 runing OS8.6

There are two drives (call them 'A' and 'B'). Drive 'A' is an SSD with
two partitions, one for the System and one for the Applications & Data.
Drive 'B' is disk HD with two similar partitions: Backup System and
Backup data.

On shutdown, a script runs Folders Synchroniser to backup Data from 'A'
to 'B' - although I often cancel this if nothing essential has taken
place during the session (backup takes about 90 minutes, as there are a
lot of files). The System is not regularly backed up, as it doesn't
change.

Everything has been working normally until this morning: when I switched
on, the Startup drive, System 'A', booted up as usual but the Finder
crashed when the other three partitions tried to mount, I disconected
drive 'A' and forced the system to boot up from drive 'B'. System 'B'
mounted up but the Finder crashed when it tried to mount the remaining partition: 'Data 'B'.

This suggested that Data 'B' was causing the trouble, so I reconnected
drive'A' and disconnected drive 'B'. System 'A' and Data 'A' both
mounted up but when I tried to open either of them, the Finder crashed.
With extensions switched off, system 'B' would run the machine and allow
data 'B' to open but the date was wrong and I could not get at nospam's
patch to correct it.

Finally I started up on a CD ROM and replace the System folder 'A' with
a copy of the backup System folder on 'B' . Then I ran Disk Warrior on
both system partitions. Finally I patched the date and re-ran Disk
Warrior to put the dates back correctly.

It has taken me most of the morning and I still don't know what caused
it.
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