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- From: hkr@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Holger Kruse)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.185833.10748@mcshh.Hanse.DE>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 18:58:33 GMT
- References: <1992Jun30.032205.19901@cs.mun.ca> <61533@cup.portal.com> <X204KSJ@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <1992Jul21.163135.8338@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Organization: Point of Presence Hamburg
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- jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
-
- >In article <X204KSJ@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> arzheim@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Kai Arzheimer ) writes:
-
- >>Better solution: Try ReOrg (shareware). It does very well (with enough memory)
- >>and can be found e.g. at amiga.physik.unizh.ch (dir should be /amiga/disk or so)
-
- >... and then again.... I've heard a few disquieting reports of ReOrg not doing it's job right --
- >or doing it too good, depending on how one looks at it. Files that were good before
- >ReOrg got them were no longer useable. Even text files have been trashed. I have *not* gotten
- >the particulars on what version (I just checked, I have *two* on my BBS), but as usual it
- >appears caution is the watchword. :-(
-
- >Anyone else hear of this? I've had two verified reports from both No. and SoCal, and the people
- >reporting it included the re-org`ed files and the backups of the originals. The originals were the
- >same size as the reorganized ones, but the ReOrged ones were not useable. This did not happen to
- >all files, but a sufficient number to send off alarm bells.
-
- A comment from the programmer:
-
- The latest ReOrg version is V2.31. I have not received any bug reports
- about that version yet. If ReOrg does not work correctly on your system,
- please make sure that you are using an unmodified original copy of ReOrg
- and - for a first try - do not change the default gadget settings.
- And for best results (speed and reliability): switch off your startup-
- sequence when you want to optimize your boot partition.
-
- If ReOrg still does not work on your system: please send me a bug report to
- my home address in Germany !
- I haven't received a bug report about scrambled files yet. So, if this
- bug really exists, I guess that it affects only very few systems. If someone
- can really verify that bug, I would very much like to fix it,
- so PLEASE send me a bug report.... Thank you !
-
- Bye, Holger
-
- hkr@mcshh.hanse.de
-