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- From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
- Subject: Re: Moving files to floppy
- References: <1992Jul23.154911.2236@a.cs.okstate.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:28:17 GMT
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- cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI) writes:
-
- >I tried (and seeming succeeded) copying a large directory of small files
- >to floppy. I got prompted when a disk was full, and things went pretty well...
- >Except: I kept on getting error messages that the files I was copying
- >were in use. Odd... I'm rather certain they weren't.
-
- I have moved things to the floppy icons and then went to look at it and
- nothing would be there! It went thru all of the info about copying, etc.
- but nothing showed up. Is the drag and drop between disk not safe?
-
- I'm going to go back and check this again, because I got many of the files in
- use messages while I was doing it, so maybe those are the ones missing?
-
- Todd
- tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- >Is there a better way to do this? A "backup" that won't split files or
- >"tokenize" them in an odd way?
-
- >(No... I'm not an ex-DOS user. I just dragged the icons from the
- >subdir they were in to the a: icon on the desktop)
-
- >Is there a "move" or "copy" command that will allow for a new disk
- >to be inserted when a file won't fit on the present disk?
-
- >(I'm hoping to reformat HPFS... but need to salvage SOME (not all) files.)
-
- >jc
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