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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite mystery file
Message-ID: <73095@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>
Date: 23 Mar 89 19:58:02 GMT
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In article <2512@phred.UUCP> johnd@phred.UUCP writes:
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>
>My hard disk crashed yesterday, but fortunately I was able to save all my
>files except one using Symantec Utilities.  Great program, by the way.
>Anyway, as I was going through the rescued files, I ran into a large (215K)
>file named VM7173949.  It's creator was FWRT (FullWrite) and it's type
>is FWVM.  What is this?  I can't open it and I'd like to get rid of it
>if I don't need it, but I can't figure out how to tell what it is.
>
>Any ideas?

It's a temporary file that didn't get deleted when the system crashed.  As
far as I know it's not good for anything except while FullWrite is running.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.