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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 22:07:36 GMT
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <1108.6632T1356T2621@sn.no>
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- G.Nath (cm6700@ccub.wlv.ac.uk) wrote:
-
- >>if it is. Even tried Disksalv without luck.
- ^^^^^^^^
-
- >What setting ? Validate, repair ?
-
- Tried repair first. Then tried salvage so I could remove
- it myself. Didn't work. Disksalv deleted it, but it was still there.
-
- >Okay try this
-
- >disk/optim ReOrg3_1.lha
-
- Just tried it. I got an error message when it got to the dir I've been having
- a problem with. Had to cancel the operation. (It was error message #37.
- Block #XXXXXX point to parent block wrong #XXXXXX.)
-
-
-
- Brian Bell (omni128@wolfenet.com) wrote:
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-
- > I've got one of these too. It's a "looped directory" inside itself. I
- >think it was created when a program crashed a long time ago.
-
- You're right!
- When I tried Reorg and got the error message, the path where the program got
- probs, was "news/Uunews/comp/sys/news/Uunews/comp/sys/news/Uunews/comp/sys/" and so on.
- The original path is of course news/Uunews/comp/sys/.
-
-
- Seems that the only sollution is to format the partition, but I'm not
- THAT desperate ;-)
-
- Frode
-
- http://www.sn.no/~frodebh/
- Ernie-fans:
- http://www.sn.no/~frodebh/ernie/
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