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Re: HFV Problems



>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Guisinger <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes:

    Dan> I recently had some problems with a HFV File that was 40 Meg
    Dan> in size.  The icons would start dissapearing, programs would
    Dan> crash that normally didn't.  It was a real pain.  Well, any
    Dan> way turns out that I had several clusters Crossed-Linked with
    Dan> other files (Now it tells me).  I thought I would let you all
    Dan> know in case if you have some thing like this happen.  Also,
    Dan> after Executor 2.00 comes out, mabey ARDI can program
    Dan> something in that checks for small things like that.

You mean clusters cross-linked at the DOS level, right?  You can
detect this with chkdsk or scandisk, right?

    Dan> And another thing with HFVs.  I was wondering if it is
    Dan> possible to Password protect the HFV at driver level like you
    Dan> can on the Macs.  (I did that on a partition at my school,
    Dan> only bad thing is, I forgot the password!)

No, you can't do that under Executor yet, and it's a lower priority
task than most other things.  If you run Executor under Linux, you can
protect things using the normal Linux filesystem protection.

	--Cliff



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