Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!SDCSVAX.UCSD.EDU!gr65%sdcc12 From: gr65%sdcc12@SDCSVAX.UCSD.EDU Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8612031620.AA05691@sdcc12.UCSD.EDU> Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 11:20:28 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc12.8612031620.AA05691 Posted: Wed Dec 3 11:20:28 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Dec-86 09:18:29 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 26 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa Info-vaxers: On our MicroVAX VMS 4.4, I have 4 directory files that have invalid format -- the first rec illegally spans a block (according to ANALYZE/RMS). The recommended action is to delete the directory and do an ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR. Since the dirs have files in them, VMS won't let me delete them. But when I try to delete the files within the dirs, the files are not found since the dirs are screwy. Any suggestions? Thanks to all 4 people who answered my previous question about a 'lost' file -- the method for finding and repairing the problem is to ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR/CONFIRM the disk and answer the prompts. This latest problem cropped up in an amazing unrelated instance when my co-manager deleted a duplicate pagefile.sys that turned out to be the active pagefile (it appears that files editted within about 3 hrs of the pagefile.sys delete were screwed up beyond repair; the 4 dirs I refer to above are ones I had been adding and deleting files from in the critical 3 hr period -- can someone give a brief low-down on characteristics of the pagefile.sys that have bearing on my trouble?) Thanks again (when it rains, it pours). gr65%sdcc12@SDCSVAX.ARPA ! note new address