Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!zaire!rankins From: rankins@zaire.crd.ge.com (raymond r rankins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Directory trashed by GS/OS. HELP!!! Message-ID: <3955@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 21 Nov 89 15:20:14 GMT References: <8911202203.AA06213@apple.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: rankins@zaire.crd.ge.com (raymond r rankins) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 48 In article <8911202203.AA06213@apple.com> ST802148@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Evan) writes: >ARGH! A directory on my hard drive has failed and I really don't want to have t >o redo the entire drive. Does anyone know of how to use Block Warden to fix a d >irectory, or maybe some other way? I used Mr. fixit, but it ships over it sayin >g Directory Too Large. HELP! HELP ME TOO!! I just ran into a similar problem myself. I was deleting a folder in the finder and it hung while it was emptying the trash can. After rebooting, GSOS said that the whole partition was not initialized. (Of course, I clicked on eject instead of initialize). Mr.Fixit fixed one problem, but skips over a "Block in use" error for one of the subdirecties of the directory I was trying to delete. Fortunately, I was able to use Cat.Doctor to copy off most of the important files I had on the disk (What's most frustating, is that I was cleaning up the disk in preparation for backing it up). Well, one of the directories I want to copy off causes Cat.Doctor to return: MLI error: $4A - Incompatible file type when I try to do anything on the directory. What does this mean? Can this be fixed with Block Warden, or could someone tell me how to at least get a list of what's in the directory? (it's a bunch of files that I just downloaded from America Online, so I could always download them again if I could remember what all of them were). This is not the first time that GS/OS hung while I was deleting files in the finder (actually, I think it occured before when I was deleting a folder). Has anyone else experienced any similar problems? I think I'll get rid of the ram cache (800k) I have set in GSOS because I've heard that a disk can get trashed if the system fails and a disk update is in progress in the ram cache. If the problems I am having are a result of the ram cache, it doesn't seem as though the little bit of speed increase is worth a possible trashed disk. Is there any why to recover gracefully if the system hangs during a disk update? Also, why can Prodos 8 read my disk (except for the bad dirs), but GSOS won't read it at all? Thanks for any help, Ray --- Ray Rankins | (518) 387-7340 | INTERNET: rankins@zaire.crd.ge.com 2 Moonglow Rd. | (518) 583-3320 | COMPUSERVE: 71131,3236 Gansevoort, NY 12831 | | AmericaOnline: RayRankins