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From: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Norton Utils Question
Keywords: Norton, Unmovable files.
Message-ID: <10906@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 18 Oct 89 21:01:56 GMT
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Reply-To: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
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In article <927@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> davidg@uns-helios.uucp (Davig Gonzales) writes:
>	I am having a bit of a problem understanding the use of Speed Disk
>(SD) under Norton Utilities 4.5. I can use the program without too much
>trouble but my hard disk is slowly being filled with files that cannot be
>moved (the X's in SD disk map). My question is, what can cause the creation
>of these files and how does one get rid of them? 
>						David A. Gonzales

   I had a problem very much like this; on one of my disks, a huge hunk
of space was marked unmovable despite the fact that it wasn't a bootable
disk, nor was I using any copy-protected software. After a couple of
weeks of looking at this off and on and vaguely wondering what was going
on, I realized that it was a huge file that I'd made hidden in order to
keep it from appearing in DIR.
   I changed the attribute back to visible and the X's disappeared.
Apparently SD assumes that any file or directory with odd attributes
probably should be left alone (which isn't a really unreasonable
assumption). It sounds like some program you have is creating hidden
files.
   Hope this helps.



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