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From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Undeletable files
Message-ID: <1567@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Aug-86 02:17:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: vax135.1567
Posted: Thu Aug 28 02:17:15 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Aug-86 22:39:03 EDT
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Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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>all attempts to change the protection status resulted in a "Protect Failed"
>or some such message. It appears that protect has protected the file from
>itself! Not only can't I access the file, but the disk now has an unusable
>spot since the file can't be deleted either. (This could be a real pain on a
>hard disk.) Has anyone else encountered this in 1.1, and does it still exist
>in 1.2?

In 1.1, I was in the midst of copying a file between disks using one drive.
Got tired of N swaps and hit cancel.  Now I have a zero-length file
which cannot be deleted, renamed, copied to, or dir opt i'd.  A small
annoyance so far, but I feel less in control knowing this can happen.