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- Document 1203
- DELWATCH TIPS
-
- Initials:
- RJR
- 11/09/91
- DRDOS 6.0
-
- Keywords:
- DELWATCH
- DELPURGE
- PENDING DELETE FILES
- SUPERSTOR
- CHKDSK
- DISKMAP
-
- Description:
-
- If Delwatch has been enabled and an end-user then compresses his disk he will
- receive an error message from Delwatch indicating that compressed drives cannot
- be Delwatched. Because of the dynamic nature of the compressed drive any memory
- resident delete tracking utility will have trouble with SuperStor. However,
- utilities such as Diskmap will work on the compressed drive. This type of
- utility makes a copy of the FAT to use for recovery.
-
- Superstor will compress pending delete files so if this occurs be sure and
- perform a Delpurge of the pending delete files to remove them from the disk.
-
- It is highly recommended that Delwatch be turned off and the pending delete
- files be purged prior to compressing the drive.
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- Description:
-
- Delwatch is also reported to cause problems with Norton's Speedisk and Disk
- Doctor. This may also be true of other utilites such as PCTools' Diskfix. The
- applications in question think of the pending delete files as lost clusters or
- invalid directories. The problem is due to the fact that when a file is deleted
- with Delwatch the cluster chain in the FAT is left intact and the filename in
- the directory has the first character replaced with an ascii 07dec. Programs
- can think of this character as an indication of a corrupted directory entry.
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- Description:
-
- Because of the way Delwatch keeps pending files some programs may think that
- they have run out of disk space as they check the disk with a direct call on
- free space. If this happens just have the end-user perform a delpurge to clear
- the necessary space for the application and reinstall.
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