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From: carlos@io.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: .info files and workbench
Message-ID: <383@io.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 17:11:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 17:11:38 1987
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Reply-To: carlos@zapp.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA
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In article <7380@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> jesup@mizar.steinmetz.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>In article <381@io.UUCP> carlos@chip.UUCP (Carlos Smith) writes:
>>..	[describes not being able to delete a directory because a file
>>..	 exists, but go to delete file and "error 205 - file not found"]
>There WAS 1 file there, a icon file.  The Amiga uses a seperate file to store
>icons, they are NOT part of the directory or file they are the icon for.
> If you did a list or dir on the
>directory from cli, there would have been a file there, I assure you.
>	Randell Jesup  (Please use one of these paths for mail)

I beg your pardon. There WAS NO FILE in the directory. I am not an idiot, I
would not go and reformat (and reload) a hard disk without checking all of the
possibilities. The initial delete failed on a workbench operation, all 
subsequent attempts to resolve it were done through the CLI, and with a 'C'
program. When I say I tried to delete the file, I typed into a cli "delete
badfilename". No longer anything to do with workbench. For that matter, the
file in question never did have an icon associated with it. 

I am replying here rather than privately to make clear that situations like
this can and do occur in the filesystem, and there should be a utility to
correct it. Fin.

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			Carlos Smith
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