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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Aaaargh !! AmiFileSh*t
- Date: 09 Mar 96 18:13:20 +0000
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- Hi, James C C Darling , on 08-Mar-96 11:52:53 you scribbled....
- >Yikes. AmiFileSafe has decided to un-validate itself. Info reports the drive
- >as read/write, but when I try to access some files, I get an "Allocation
- >Error".
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- >This is not good. Some other files on the disk read and write OK, others
- >can't be executed (DOS error - file not executable). What is going wrong ?
-
- I'd guess that your maxtransfer is incorrect...
-
- >A friend of mine has DiskSalv 4, and he came round to help, but the "Repair"
- >options (and most others) were greyed out. What can I do ? Are there any
- >other repair/optimisation programs available that can cope with AmiFileSafe ?
-
- The current version of disksalv works in salvage mode only (copying to another
- volume)
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- >If not, I recommend everyone to steer clear of it until there are. It's a
- >shame because it's very fast.
-
- There is Diskvalid...
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- >Also, not so much a problem, when I have virtual memory on and lots of
- >programs loaded, I sometimes get "AmiFileSafe out of memory errors" and have
- >to reboot. This happens with large (several Mb) files. My machine only has
- >10Mb RAM.
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- Erk! This could also be your problem if AFS is being made to use VM..
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- >Any help or info greatly appreciated !!!!
-
- >thanx,
-
- >James D
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- Mike
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