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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: Can I delete 400K EA... file from drive D: (all DOS programs)?
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- Date: 28 Aug 92 20:48:27 GMT
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- In article <stanton.470.0@haas.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
- >My drive D: contains only DOS programs. However, I see there is a 400K EA...
- >file in the root directory. This seems rather large, since none of the files
- >should need any extended attributes.
- >
- >Can I just delete the file? If there might be problems with doing this, is
- >there another way to shrink it? (By the way, CHKDSK /F didn't change
- >anything)
-
- Don't do this. The files have pointers into the EA's, and they will
- end up pointing into nothing - generating lots of errors. CHKDSK
- might be able to correct these errors, but it's not worth trying.
-
- Use the EAUTIL program to strip the EAs from your files. You can then
- delete the stripped EAs from your drive.
-
- Note that the EAs will be written back to your drive as you use WPS on
- it. Every folder has EAs to let WPS know the window and icon
- positions of it and its contents. You delete the EAs, and the
- positions will all revert back to the defaults.
-
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