| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Here's a good one:
The other night, I deciced to do a little cleaning up on my hard
disk. I took an Empty Drawer icon and made copies of it, renaming
them as different names. Then I dragged a ton of files into the
new drawers. Big deal, huh?
Well I then discovered that the Empty Drawer icon that I used was
only an icon, not a real subdirectory.
What a mess. Well I was able to delete all the corrupt files and
directories and rebuild what I had lost from my backup.
Here's the problem now: I have a file that I can't delete. I can't
rename it. I can't move it. I've tried everything. It is an .info
file for a file that no longer exists. It does not display an icon.
It doesn't do anything. It just won't go away. If I try to move
the directory it is in, everything halts when it gets to this mystery
file.
Other than re-formatting the disk, is there anyway to get rid of
this thing?
Moral: Always try to open a drawer before you move files into it.
Icons are not always what they appear.
Randy
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| 1665.1 | WJG::GUINEAU | Tue Sep 06 1988 12:36 | 8 | ||
What kind of error do you get? (depending on above) did you try to use PROTECT? Maybe DISKDOCTOR (or a more stable such tool) would work? John | |||||
| 1665.2 | Try a directory utility program | VTHRAX::KIP | No Dukes. | Tue Sep 06 1988 13:15 | 6 |
I'd try using one of the point-and-click directory utilities to
delete it. Sometimes when I have a file that behaves strangely,
due to its having a weird name for instance, I can delete it when
I use a program like, say DiskMaster.
Worth a shot...
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