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From: bjc@pollux.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disappearing mutually recursive subdirctories
Message-ID: <12192@pollux.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 88 00:43:46 GMT
References: <3940@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: bjc@pollux.UUCP ()
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX, 75275
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In article <3940@louie.udel.EDU> mcohen@nrtc.northrop.com (Marty Cohen) writes:
>My basic problem is that a parent directory somehow became a child
>of one of its own child directories. When I closed them, they
>vanished and I can no longer find them. A "dir opt a" from the
>root directory shows no trace.
>

You may be able to recover your directories by formatting a disk and doing a
simple "copy df0: to df1:"


Files have mysteriously disappeared from several of my disks lately.  The 
programs will still run, if I remember the exact path and spelling.  Data is
still available under the same conditions - but they refuse to show up in
a directory or list, and they will not accept icons or any such.  They did
not behave properly after a DISKCOPY, but copying the material to another
disk freed them.  Wonder why they do this?

Betty Clay
.........killer!pollux!bjc