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From: sbennett@pro-novapple.cts.com (Stephen Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Editing Pro-DOS Directories
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Date: 16 Mar 90 05:52:56 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from blackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU

>> By the way, I haven't been able to undelete successfully in Copy II
>> Plus for ANYTHING ProDOS, in a long time.  ...
>> ...  But has anyone been able to make it work?

Copy II+ has always done quite well for me with Undeleting files, from version
4.something (the first version I tried), up to version 8.3, which is the
version I'm now using...

There is one minor matter you must make sure of to be able to undelete a file
-- the blocks that the file were (are) occupying must not have been written
over...  Try deleting a test file, then undeleting it immediately without any
writing to disk in between...  if there is any writing to disk, you run the
risk of having part or all of the file being written over, and in that case,
Copy II+ will not be able to "resurrect" the file...  you'll have to go to
stronger medicine, such as Bag of Tricks...  :)
Good luck with it!

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