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Received: from blue.csi.cam.ac.uk (blue.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.34]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA16701 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 06:43:16 -0800 Received: by blue.csi.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0tG5Ws-0003wQC; Thu, 16 Nov 95 14:43 GMT Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:43:03 +0000 (GMT) From: James Scott <jes23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> X-Sender: jes23@blue.csi.cam.ac.uk To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Problems with Big hfvs Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951116141901.21466A-100000@blue.csi.cam.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk I had a problem with a big (230 Mb) hfv I made in order to back up my macs hard disk. It worked fine until it was about 190 Mb full, and then every time I copied a file to it a GP fault occurred. When I went back into executor, the copied file was corrupt, in that I couldn't move it, delete it or access it. Wierd things happened when I deleted the directory containing it. Delete gave an error of the Abort/Continue style, and after I had aborted it was still there, but when I opened it it contained its parent directory. After a few minutes of playing in this way, I had completely messed up the volume! Reading and writing to my 'real' 240Mb mac hard disk gave no problems. Eventually, I backed up by making two smaller hfvs and had no problems. Somewhere I have the exception tracebacks and error numbers, which I can send if you want, together with details of my machine. While I'm here a few points I noticed about the browser and the filesystem. 1. An apple-d key to delete a file (or even a trashcan) would be very handy. 2. The ability to select multiple folders for copy/move/delete operations would be good. 3. When you copy a big folder (about 100 or more files in it), there is a long delay before copying starts. And if you're copying small files, it seems to be much slower than copying the equivalent amount of data in big files. On a mac, these operations seem to happen quite efficiently. I can see that all of this might not be high on your list of priorities, but here it is all the same! James Scott