Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!lll-winken!muslix!jac From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: fun and games with Disksalv Message-ID: <30837@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 17 Aug 89 00:07:54 GMT References: <7591@cbmvax.UUCP> <6275@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/UC Davis Lines: 35 In article <6275@hubcap.clemson.edu> disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gary Heffelfinger) writes: > >Actually, if the truth be known, PageStream somehow created a bogus icon >in my document drawer that got tied to all of the files in that drawer. >There was a nameless "project" icon which, when I selected it and >discarded it, proceeded to delete all of the files in the directory. >Steven King could've written a novel about it. :-) > >That'll teach me to use the Trashcan. :-) > Hmmm. Sounds frighteningly similar to something that happened to me last fall. I had been dragging icons out onto the Workbench. One day I was working with TxEd, and had just closed it down and I noticed that there was an Icon on the Workbench that had no name under it. Well, without thinking I selected it and tried to discard it. The hard disk started gronk-gronk-gronking away. Then I got a requester saying "Cannot delete C:". Yikes! Sure enough, I checked and all my files from C: were gone, and a bunch of things from the root directory were gone too. Fortunately I had a recent backup. Well, a month or so later another unnamed Icon appeared. This time I grabbed the icon and drug it to the RAM: disk icon. The hard disk started gronking away and after a bit I got "RAM: is full". cd'd to RAM:, and there was a directory there "RAM:sys". The unnamed icon was somehow attached to the system partition of my hard drive (it was a project icon)!!! Does anyone have an idea what could cause such a problem? Like Gary says above, be very careful about deleting from the workbench! > >Gary > Jim