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From: orcus@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Greenstone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Directory Sizes
Message-ID: <8908301820.AA21124@trout.nosc.mil>
Date: 29 Aug 89 16:32:07 GMT
Organization: The Internet
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Okay, here's a problem that really puzzles me.  I have been downloading fonts
from AppleLink, and there must be about 600-700 files in my System/Fonts
subdirectory.  This is fine, but whenever I go into Prodos 8 and try deleting
a file from the FONTS sub, it does permanent and quite fatal damage to the
directory.  If I do this and then run, say, AppleWorks GS, when the Font
Manager starts up, it tells me that "The Volume UTIL may be damaged."  As a
matter of fact, deleting from P8 does so much damage, that I cant even delete
files that have I/O errors on them; the Finder will just crash on me.  Of
course I have no problem at all deleting anything from GS/OS, this problem
only occurs when I delete in Prodos 8.  Sometimes when this happens
(happened), I did a DELETE command from BASIC, and other times... well, no
actually, it only did it when I did DELETE, because none of my p8 utilities
can load in a directory as large as that... Oh, well, any have any ideas?

-Brian