usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (USENET Administrator) (12/12/86)
I would appreciate some help and advice on what to do when a disk's master directory goes kaput. This has just happened with a double-sided disk with a lot of Overvue files on it (Mac+, HFS). The disk is now completely unmountable, and only FeditPlus will even recognise it, and then only as a volume. I know I can go through with FeditPlus and try to copy each file sector by sector, following the file tags, but whatever caused the failure may presumably have corrupted a file or two, and the process is very laborious in any case. Any shortcuts? Directory failures seem to have happened quite a lot recently (though the previous ones just involved a bad downloaded file, and once that was deleted (or had its bundle bit unset) all was well again), so a relatively quick fix would be nice to know. It also seems to me that Overvue (v.2.0) is pretty buggy (failures to refresh the screen after using DAs, general crashes etc.) - does anyone else have this impression? Anthony Bulloch