thompson@cis.ohio-state.edu (jeffery d thompson) (04/26/91)
I'm not sure how it happened, but all of the files I had on my Atari Megafile 30 in partition D have become invisible. The problem started when I was using Cheetah to copy some files from logical drive E to D. For one copy it either said that it couldn't find the drive path or that the drive path was to complex. I rebooted the computer and used Cheetah to find out how much room was left on the drive. No files or folders appeared but it said I only had 5 megabytes left when that partition should have 6.5 meg free. So I know the files are still there but how can I get to them? Thanks in advance for any help. Jeff
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (04/26/91)
In article <112614@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> thompson@cis.ohio-state.edu (jeffery d thompson) writes: > > I'm not sure how it happened, but all of the files I had on my >Atari Megafile 30 in partition D have become invisible. The problem >started when I was using Cheetah to copy some files from logical drive E >to D. For one copy it either said that it couldn't find the drive path >or that the drive path was to complex. I rebooted the computer and >used Cheetah to find out how much room was left on the drive. No files >or folders appeared but it said I only had 5 megabytes left when that >partition should have 6.5 meg free. So I know the files are still there >but how can I get to them? Thanks in advance for any help. > Jeff Cheetah does non-standard stuff to achieve the speed that it does. It does not verify like conventional writes do (if indeed you do have verify on, which is the default). Therefore, as I'm sure the docs state, you use Cheetah at your own risk. I use Cheetah once in a while, but not for all of my copying. If you get any kind of error while using Cheetah, I wouldn't use it for that drive. It seems that your drive may have been too heavily fragmented for Cheetah to find the drive paths, but that's just a supposition. If you get an error with Cheetah, I would question the integrity of the data on that partition. You should back it up ASAP and defragment it, or zero the partition and restore the backup. -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0