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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: a dir which is not possible to delete
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Feb27.225713.14098@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 22:57:13 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <725.6630T801T2695@sn.no>
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- Organization: Scala Computer Television, US Research Center
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- In <725.6630T801T2695@sn.no>, frodebh@sn.no (Frode Bakkeslett Hagen) writes:
- >I've got a weird problem. I have a directory which seems
- >impossible to delete. I've tried dopus. It does the delete-operation,
- >but afterwards the directory is still there. I tried to move it to ram,
- >but that didn't work either (the dir was copied to ram, but not deleted from
- >the hd.). Tried to delete it from dos. Got the message "directory not empty", even
- >if it is.
-
- Have you tried:
-
- 1> Delete <directory_which_is_not_possible_to_delete> all
-
- 1> Protect <directory_which_is_not_possible_to_delete> add d
- 1> Delete <directory_which_is_not_possible_to_delete> all
-
- 1> ; first move anything you care about somewhere else
- 1> Delete #? all
-
- > Even tried Disksalv without luck.
-
- DiskSalv doesn't normally delete things. If your disk is screwed up in
- some way that's causing this, run DiskSalv in Repair mode. Make sure
- you're using an up-to-date version of DiskSalv 2 or later.
-
- Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
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