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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Directory Corrupted! Help!
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.222703.10538@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 22:27:03 GMT
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In article <1991Jan22.135217.3697@stb.info.com> jspear@stb.info.com (Artichoke) writes:
> 
>Starting Point:
>- 120M Quantum drive partitioned by Silver Lining 5.13 to 80 and 34M.
>- System 6.0.7, Desktop Manager, zillions of inits and junk on 80M.
>- 80M partition has less than 300K free space, optimized in Nov 90.
>- No problems with 34M partitions, says Disk First Aid and others.
>
>What happened:
>- Copy folder containing 2 files from floppy to root of the 80M, and
>  I get a folder containing two 0K files (on floppy they were 50K+)
>- Delete the folder with empty files. Many explatives fill room.
[lots of attempts to fix FOLDER FROM HELL]
>- Run PC Tools Deluxe MacTools Rescue 1.0, "Fix Volumes, Unknown Prob"
>  -- Says Volume Info, Extent File and Catalog File are OK, but
>  -- Volume Bitmap didn't match catalog (repaired, it said)
>  -- Volume Bitmap freepace didn't match volume info (can't repair,
>     it says).
>- Run Rescue again
>  -- Extent File BAD, "The file header block is damaged", no repair
>     offered.
>- Reboot Mac, now when the system tries to mount the 80M partition I
>  get "This disk is damaged. Do you want to initialize it?"
>  SOOO PC Tools Deluxe made things worse, not better.
>
>What to do next?
>- Buy yet another utility: Norton for the Mac?

I don't know of any utility that can completely fix the directory damage that
results in the undeletable folder (just fixing the directory valence doesn't
do it)

>- Write nasty letter to Apple and Central Point?
Especially Central Point--  they shouldn't have damaged your directory more.

>- Reinitialize/restore, and wait for next time this happens?
Yes, since you have a current backup-- no other solution will result in
a repaired directory structure.

(and depending on how your backup is done-- file by file or image-- even
this may not repair the directory structure)
--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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