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From: caw@miroc.UUCP (Christopher A. Wichura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Thanks ASDG
Keywords: ASDG
Message-ID: <00197.AA00197@miroc>
Date: 1 Feb 90 18:38:20 GMT
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On 31 Jan 90 22:47:43 GMT new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>Anyway, I think what happens is that the hash chain the file is stored under
>does not match the actual hash of the name. Hence, DIR will show the file
>but DELETE (even delete #?) will not find the file.  The only "easy" fix
>I ever found was to copy the needed files elsewhere and zero out all
>the hash-chain-heads from the directory and then revalidate.
>		    -- Darren

What about one of the disk rebuilder programs like Disk Mechanic or
DiskSalv, etc?	I seem to remember the docs to Disk Mechanic saying
something about one of DiskRepair's functions being able to re-build the
hash table.  Never had a need to try it out, though, thankfully!

-=> CAW

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