Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!silver!jburka From: jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: help! I'm in s-l-o-w m--o--t--i--o--n! Keywords: and so is my HD Message-ID: <55918@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 30 Aug 90 23:19:39 GMT References: <2648@unccvax.uncc.edu> Sender: news@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN. Lines: 37 In article <2648@unccvax.uncc.edu> cs63bld@unccvax.uncc.edu (b. daniels) writes: >I thought it must be a fragementation-type problem, and lacking anything like >the defraggers available for the PC, I backed up all my files to floppy >with Turtle, restored them, and looked forward to a performace increase. >Nope. Did you actually zero the partition or did you just delete the files? That's all I can think of... >What's going on here? Any help would be appreciated. >Also, is there a PD program to complement Turtle? I mean something that >restores to your HD and just prompts you for each disk. That would be a lot >easier (and faster!) than copying them from the desktop.... My, my, aren't you in luck! There exists "UnTurtle," (named with permission of George Woodside) which allows you to do restores semi-painlessly. You pick a floppy drive to restore from and a partition to restore to...then hit return. When all files are copied, insert the next disk and hit return. UnTurtle handles all of the folder creation and so on. UnTurtle is up to version 1.3 and I've been using it with no problems for years. Version 2.0 is supposedly on the way (rewritten from Personal Pascal to Laser C, and with a nicer user-interface), but the author has other, more pressing projects to finish first. In keeping with the Turtle idea, UnTurtle is freeware. If it isn't up on Terminator, I'll post it tonight. Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "At night they're seen | |jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu | Laughing, loving, | |jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu | They know the way to be happy" --KaTe |