Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxa!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Scavanger for the MAC Message-ID: <1260@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 15:22:52 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beaver>.1260 Posted: Thu Jul 19 15:22:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jul-84 04:37:25 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 8 From: mclure@Sri-Unix.arpa Folks, one of you replied and saved my life. Macintosh has a built-in Scavanger feature. It is activated by holding down the option and cloverleaf (maybe just option) buttons while a diskette is booting. Apparently the entire directory is rebuild from scratch. It saved my diskette and about 20 hours of work. Stuart