johnd@phred.UUCP (03/23/89)
My hard disk crashed yesterday, but fortunately I was able to save all my files except one using Symantec Utilities. Great program, by the way. Anyway, as I was going through the rescued files, I ran into a large (215K) file named VM7173949. It's creator was FWRT (FullWrite) and it's type is FWVM. What is this? I can't open it and I'd like to get rid of it if I don't need it, but I can't figure out how to tell what it is. Any ideas?
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/24/89)
>Anyway, as I was going through the rescued files, I ran into a large (215K) >file named VM7173949. It's creator was FWRT (FullWrite) and it's type >is FWVM. What is this? I can't open it and I'd like to get rid of it >if I don't need it Zap it. It's just a temporary file that FullWrite uses to implement the disk side of its virtual memory scheme. Chuq Von Rospach -*- Editor,OtherRealms -*- Member SFWA chuq@apple.com -*- CI$: 73317,635 -*- Delphi: CHUQ -*- Applelink: CHUQ [This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.] USENET: N. A self-replicating phage engineered by the phone company to cause computers to spend large amounts of their owners budget on modem charges.
holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) (03/24/89)
In article <2512@phred.UUCP> johnd@phred.UUCP writes: > > >My hard disk crashed yesterday, but fortunately I was able to save all my >files except one using Symantec Utilities. Great program, by the way. >Anyway, as I was going through the rescued files, I ran into a large (215K) >file named VM7173949. It's creator was FWRT (FullWrite) and it's type >is FWVM. What is this? I can't open it and I'd like to get rid of it >if I don't need it, but I can't figure out how to tell what it is. > >Any ideas? It's a temporary file that didn't get deleted when the system crashed. As far as I know it's not good for anything except while FullWrite is running. Fred Hollander Computer Science Center Texas Instruments, Inc. hollander@ti.com The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.