sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal) (05/21/91)
Well, I did the stupidest thing recently. I was using my favorite disk directory manager, and was looking at this particular directory and one of its subdirectories. I selected the parent directory and moved it to be a subdirectory of its own subdirectory. Instant orphaned diretories. I've tried disksalv, but I only want to recover the 20 or so files caught in this loop without trying to recover all 200 megs of that partition. The catch is you have to *know* the file names of each file. I've tried using only a directory qualifier, but that always fails. I've tried diskx, but I have to zap the program every time I need to look at a disk that doesn't have one of the default disk names. I can find files I know the name of, but can't find the directory tree for those files. Am I in danger of writing over these files? I presume not, because they should continue to be marked as used if I understand correctly. How can I get the files out, without disksalving the entire disk, and without knowing the names of all the files? Any good PD sector editors out there that can handle this? Or am I missing something simple? I'm at the mercy of the net on this one. -- Stephen N. Opal sno@ais.org rjf001!sno-1!sno