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Problems with Big hfvs




I had a problem with a big (230 Mb) hfv I made in order to back up my macs
hard disk. It worked fine until it was about 190 Mb full, and then every
time I copied a file to it a GP fault occurred. When I went back into
executor, the copied file was corrupt, in that I couldn't move it, delete
it or access it. Wierd things happened when I deleted the directory
containing it. Delete gave an error of the Abort/Continue style, and after
I had aborted it was still there, but when I opened it it contained its
parent directory. After a few minutes of playing in this way, I had
completely messed up the volume! Reading and writing to my 'real' 240Mb
mac hard disk gave no problems. Eventually, I backed up by making two
smaller hfvs and had no problems. Somewhere I have the exception
tracebacks and error numbers, which I can send if you want, together with
details of my machine. 

While I'm here a few points I noticed about the browser and the filesystem.

1. An apple-d key to delete a file (or even a trashcan) would be very 
handy.

2. The ability to select multiple folders for copy/move/delete operations 
would be good. 

3. When you copy a big folder (about 100 or more files in it), there is a 
long delay before copying starts. And if you're copying small files, it 
seems to be much slower than copying the equivalent amount of data in big 
files. On a mac, these operations seem to happen quite efficiently. 

I can see that all of this might not be high on your list of priorities, 
but here it is all the same!

James Scott


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