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- From: jsev@midland.co.nz (John Severinsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Weird Directory that won't delete
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 02:48:00 GMT
- Organization: Midland Internet Limited, Network Services
- Message-ID: <1024.6580T859T704@midland.co.nz>
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- Hi Barry. On 05-Jan-96 you wrote:
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- >HELP... I have a directory on my hardrive named "foo". It will not
- >delete. I get a weird error message-something about an incorrect pointer
- >(I seem to have misplaced my notes) When I try to defrag my drive, it
- >also gives me an error, and refuses to continue. I am desperate. I've
- >tried using 'Delete foo force', I even tried building an lharcive with a
- >new directory named 'foo' and unarched it hoping to overwrite the old one.
- >Please, please, please tell me that I do not have to reformat my hard drive.
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- I sounds like the directory is somewhat corruput. Try running DiskSalv on it
- (available from Aminet).
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