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- From: frodebh@sn.no (Frode Bakkeslett Hagen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: a dir which is not possible to delete
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 22:07:27 GMT
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <1003.6632T1308T2213@sn.no>
- References: <725.6630T801T2695@sn.no> <1996Feb27.225713.14098@scala.scala.com>
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- Dave Haynie (dave.haynie@scala.com) wrote:
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- >Have you tried:
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- > 1> Delete <directory_which_is_not_possible_to_delete> all
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- Yes
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- > 1> Protect <directory_which_is_not_possible_to_delete> add d
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- Checked the flags they were ----rwed
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- > 1> Delete <directory_which_is_not_possible_to_delete> all
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- > 1> ; first move anything you care about somewhere else
- > 1> Delete #? all
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- Yes. The dir is empty, but in dos I still get the message that it isn't.
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- >> Even tried Disksalv without luck.
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- >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.
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- I used repair mode. The dir didn't go away. Used salvage mode, so I could
- delete the dir manually.
- The problem is that dopus, disksalv etc delete the dir as if everything was ok.
- But it won't go away after it has been deleted ;-)
-
- Frode
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- http://www.sn.no/~frodebh/
- Ernie-fans:
- http://www.sn.no/~frodebh/ernie/
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