fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham) (08/21/89)
In article <201@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> rjtatz@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Robert J. Tatz) writes: > When I clicked once on > a drawer icon and moved it one pixel it DISAPPEARED. It jumped > into another directory whose icon was two icons directly above it. > I know it sounds strange, but it was repeatable although it had to > be done just right. He nearly killed me when it first disappeared, > but everything was there... If you really can reproduce it, Commodore may be interested. They were looking for this bug months ago. Hey guys, found it yet ? It has happened to several people, including me as recently as this weekend. As you found, the files are usually just hiding somewhere. Has anyone permanently lost stuff ? Besides the fellow who posted last week ? > - Bob -- -Frank Cunningham smart: fc@lexicon.com phone: (617) 891-6790 dumb: {husc6,linus,harvard,bbn}!spdcc!lexicon!fc Real Recording Engineers mix direct to stereo.
tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris) (08/22/89)
I had one of my directories jump around on me too one day, I thought that the kids did something they weren't suppossed to be doing. On the root of dh0: I had a Dino directory for Designasaraus and my WP directory for Word Perfect. My daughter came up and said that the dino drawer was gone so she couldn't play, I went snooping and found it had moved into the WP directory. I restored everything and kind of wondered what happened. A few days later I was cleaning up my directory on dh1: and I clicked on a file icon and it vanished. I looked around and found it up a level. This was too weird so I got out the old backup program and made sure everything was securely on floppy disks in case another incident like this occured. Just in case it matters, I have an A500 with a GVP 30 Meg hard drive attached, 1 Meg RAM only. I am running WB 1.3 and FFS on the had drive. I don't know if it is a hardware specific thing or something in FFS, what types of setups do others have that have seen this problem? Tim Harris
marksm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen) (08/23/89)
In article <499@lexicon.com> fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham) writes: >In article <201@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> rjtatz@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Robert J. Tatz) writes: >> When I clicked once on >> a drawer icon and moved it one pixel it DISAPPEARED. It jumped >> into another directory whose icon was two icons directly above it. >If you really can reproduce it, Commodore may be interested. > It has happened to several people, including me as recently as this >weekend. As you found, the files are usually just hiding somewhere. I have done this (nondestructively :-) a couple of times, and the situation is always similar. As reconstructed by my brain afterwards, it goes like this: Open a window on the workbench that has lots of drawer icons in it. Now move lots of the drawer icons around, but DON'T snapshot them. (Best is to use shift-left-click to move half a dozen of them around in the window.) Now blithely move another drawer icon (one you haven't yet moved) to somewhere recently occupied by one of the icons you moved first. Most times, the drives will get busy, and the drawer you just moved will disappear, and eventually show up inside one of the drawers you first moved. So it's like the workbench thinks the drawers are where they were last snapshot, not where they are on the window. >Has anyone permanently lost stuff ? I've never lost anything permanently like this myself. Hope this helps someone, Mark. -- ####################################################################### ## Mark S. Madsen #### marksm@syma.sussex.ac.uk ################### #### Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK. ## #################### Life's a bitch. Then you die. #################