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- From: tee@ecf.toronto.edu (TEE LUNS)
- Subject: Re: Something interesting ... :-)
- Message-ID: <Bz80tn.77v@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
- References: <1992Dec13.164121.23208@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:20:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.164121.23208@ousrvr.oulu.fi> ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho) writes:
- >at the tree view of drive C, you see TWO directories named SaveFile (and
- >both at the same level of the directory hierarchy). But when you look
- >at drive C in the details view you see that while the "Name" of the directory
- >we are interested in is C:\SaveFile the "Real Name" still is C:\OS2.
-
- This reminds me of something that happened to me a little while back. I
- was trying to re-arrange the order of icons in the tree view of my drive C
- object. In particular, I wanted a particular directory to be towards the
- top of the tree. I tried dragging the directory upwards, but it ended up
- being moved *into* the directory I dropped it on to. I tried the same thing
- (hoping to move it page by page up the tree until I reached the root directory
- where at least it would be in the right directory). Somehow, copies of the
- directory were being left behind. So, there were several folders all pointing
- to the same contents in my directory tree.
- Going to the command line, each of these directories also seemed equally
- valid. I went back to the drive object to delete one of these copies, and
- flagged it to not warn on folder delete - big mistake. It got about halfway
- through deleting the contents of the folder (all instances at once) when
- I realized what was going on when I did the three-finger salute, and booted
- DOS.
- Turns out, cross-linked directories were somehow created. Seems like
- a very bad bug to me, but this is a strange one. The file system would be
- responsible for it, but I can't picture standard system calls made by
- PMSHELL ending up with such a result.
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