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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UnDelete & DiskSalv Question
Message-ID: <41962@sun.uucp>
Date: 15 Feb 88 18:55:03 GMT
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In article <18956@aspvax.UUCP> eraps2@aspvax.UUCP writes:
>Hi all,
>Does anyone know how to undelete a file?  I know ... a basic question,
>but the answers "diskslav" and "undelete" don't seem work.  I just
>deleted a file by accident and WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING after deleteing
>the file, tried diskslav and undelete on it.

Well, I don't know this for sure, but when you "Delete" something I 
believe that AmigaDOS scribbles on the FileHeader block. When you "Lose"
something because the directory got blown away, you can recover it. 
The only other way is an extremely crufty walk through the old file
system collecting blocks that all point back to the same block. Not
fun.


--Chuck McManis
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