orcus@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Greenstone) (08/29/89)
Okay, here's a problem that really puzzles me. I have been downloading fonts from AppleLink, and there must be about 600-700 files in my System/Fonts subdirectory. This is fine, but whenever I go into Prodos 8 and try deleting a file from the FONTS sub, it does permanent and quite fatal damage to the directory. If I do this and then run, say, AppleWorks GS, when the Font Manager starts up, it tells me that "The Volume UTIL may be damaged." As a matter of fact, deleting from P8 does so much damage, that I cant even delete files that have I/O errors on them; the Finder will just crash on me. Of course I have no problem at all deleting anything from GS/OS, this problem only occurs when I delete in Prodos 8. Sometimes when this happens (happened), I did a DELETE command from BASIC, and other times... well, no actually, it only did it when I did DELETE, because none of my p8 utilities can load in a directory as large as that... Oh, well, any have any ideas? -Brian
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (08/31/89)
In article <8908301820.AA21124@trout.nosc.mil> orcus@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Greenstone) writes: >Okay, here's a problem that really puzzles me. I have been downloading fonts >from AppleLink, and there must be about 600-700 files in my System/Fonts >subdirectory. This is fine, but whenever I go into Prodos 8 and try deleting >a file from the FONTS sub, it does permanent and quite fatal damage to the >directory. [...] Do you have access to a disk-repair program that will tell you what the damage was? (And verify that there was not already some damage *before* you deleted a file.) I want to try to duplicate your problem: what version of ProDOS 8 were you using? Can you delete *any* file in the directory? Or just one near the beginning? the end? --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.