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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: disappearing drawers
Message-ID: <6151@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 89 22:36:12 GMT
References: <899@acf3.NYU.EDU> <27973@sgi.SGI.COM>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <27973@sgi.SGI.COM> scotth@harlie.SGI.COM (Scott Henry) writes:
>I had something similar happen to me (I am/was running 1.3 w/FFS on my HD).
>I was just lining up my directory/folder icons (so that they would be nice
>and pretty), when they started all disappearing! (all but the first one
>selected, that is). Being somewhat handier with the CLI/shell than with
>the workbench, I started looking around. I found that all of the folders
>after the first were now sub-directories! Easy enough to fix, but I am now
>rather paranoid about having more than one (unopened) folder selected at
>one time. 
>
>At a recent FAUG meeting, there was some discussion about this, and it has
>been reported to CBM as a bug. Apparently, I was one of the luckier ones,
>as all of my directories and files were just "missing, not lost".

	This sounds a lot like the Omega FFS bug.  At some point during the
Gammas or Omegas, FFS was changed to require entries to be in a specific
order within a hash chain.  Using release FFS (without reformatting and
restoring all the files) could cause files to "disappear", while still be
accessable by name (list/dir wouldn't show them, but you could copy them,
CD to them, etc).  So if you set up your FFS partitions under a non-release
FFS, or worse yet are using a non-release FFS, backup, format, and restore!

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup