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From: c08_d103@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Ex-God)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hyper C
Summary: deleting files
Message-ID: <883@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 89 05:32:25 GMT
References: <511@madnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
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Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <511@madnix.UUCP> rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
>...I tried to delete the old files...and none of them would delete.
>Copy II+ and BLU report error $56, bad buffer address.  BASIC says NO
>BUFFERS AVAILABLE.
>
>I don't like having 7 files, 36 blocks each, and 1 file, 191 blocks taking
>up my space!!  GRR!!

Well, I don't know enough about the details to tell you how to delete
the files with any program I know of, but I can give you two ways to
delete any file.

Method #1:  Go into a sector editor (e.g. the one in C2+), remove the
entry from the directory (by blanking it out) or mark it as deleted,
and mark all its sectors (use the disk map command in C2+ to find out
which sectors are part of the file) as free on the disk map sector.

Method #2 (the easy way):  Copy all the files you want to keep to
another disk, then reformat the original disk and copy all the files
back to it.  This also has the advantage of optimizing your disk (in
case you delete files often).

I can't think of a reason either of these two methods would fail to
delete a file on an otherwise fine disk.... 

     -- Andrew Barnert // ex-God // Smilin' Jack // etc.
        ins_balb@jhunix // ins_balb@jhuvms // c08_d103@jhunix
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