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- 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.
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- While I'm here a few points I noticed about the browser and the filesystem.
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- 1. An apple-d key to delete a file (or even a trashcan) would be very
- handy.
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- 2. The ability to select multiple folders for copy/move/delete operations
- would be good.
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- 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.
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- I can see that all of this might not be high on your list of priorities,
- but here it is all the same!
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- James Scott
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