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From: ladasky@codon3.berkeley.edu (John Ladasky;1021 Solano No. 2;528-8666)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Disappearing Disk Space
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.035921.1943@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 03:59:21 GMT
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	I just had something terribly unpleasant happen to me... I'm using 
Dr T's Copyist to assemble PostScript files of my music.  For those of you
who have worked with PostScript, you're aware that files can be pretty huge -
up to 300k/page.  Anyway, I have a bunch of disks onto each of which I had
placed a Copyist source file and a PostScript file.  I deleted the old Post-
Script files in anticipation of updating them - and lo and behold, the amount
of free space on the disk did NOT increase!

	Not that I normally check the amount of free space on a disk after a
deletion - I found this out the hard way.  The PostScript file converter in 
the Copyist spins your disk for about 30 minutes continuously (shame on them
for not writing it to memory and saving it all at once!), and about 15 minutes
into the process, each of my disks came up with a "file creation or write
error" (I love how specific this message is, too).  That was when I checked 
the disk space.

	Now, I just did the deleting operation from the TOS desktop - nothing
fancy (I don't have 1.4 yet).  I might have thought it was a fluke except
that it occurred on three different disks.  Does anyone have any idea how 
this might have happened?

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