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- From: wuerthne@minnie.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Martin Wuerthner)
- Subject: Help ! Undeletable file
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.123431.16111@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
- Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, Germany
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:34:31 GMT
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- I have an A3000, 4MB, ARM3, RISC OS 3.1, HCCS 8-bit internal SCSI
- controller (version 2) and a Quantum LPS 105 hard disc.
- (Despite some postings I read my HCCS controller runs fine under RO3.1.)
-
- Some days ago I save a file (from DeskEdit) which was about 1.03MB in size.
- During the save operation I got an error message (internal fatal error in
- DeskEdit) and afterwards a 'FileCore in use' error.
-
- I switched the computer off and on again and tried again. I one more time
- put the file together (the file was obtained by putting together some other
- files) and saved it to a different directory.
- * And exactly the same happened !! *
-
- The only difference was that in the first case, there already was a file
- with the same name on the disc, so the file was overwritten. In the second
- case the directory was empty.
-
- The result is that I now have a 1.03MB file on my harddisc that crashes the
- system when it is accessed (i.e. if you try to open or delete it !!). It was
- the file that was not properly overwritten (when the first error occured).
- *Checkmap reports a good map.
- However, the space (1.03 MB) is taken up by the file and I would like to free
- it. You may rename the file but not open or delete it.
-
- I hope, anyone can help ...
-
- Martin
-
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