Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!usenet From: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (USENET Administrator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Disk directory failure - help! Message-ID: <1913@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 04:17:14 EST Article-I.D.: jade.1913 Posted: Fri Dec 12 04:17:14 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 19:24:53 EST Reply-To: abulloch@violet.berkeley.edu (Anthony Bulloch) Distribution: net Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 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