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From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fun and games with Disksalv
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Date: 17 Aug 89 00:07:54 GMT
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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