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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Missing files after system crash
Message-ID: <10162@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 10 Feb 90 20:56:54 GMT
References: <29750@andante.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <29750@andante.UUCP> bwb@andante.UUCP (Bruce Ballard) writes:
>Can someone fill me in:
>
>The problem: Your app writes one or more files,
>then a static charge or a tripping
>over the power cord causes the machine to go down.
>Upon reboot, your files are missing from the desktop.
>
>The reason: ??

Your application didn't do a FlushVol after writing the files.

>The solution: ??

Make it do a FlushVol (PBFlushVol).
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"A book is the product of a contract with the Devil that inverts the Faustian
 contract, he'd told Allie.  Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two
 dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and
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 Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins."
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