Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!silver!walrath From: walrath@silver.bacs.indiana.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Loosing files using WB Message-ID: <36400020@silver> Date: 19 Aug 89 16:00:00 GMT References: <21914@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington Lines: 49 Nf-ID: #R:louie.udel.EDU:-2191400:silver:36400020:000:2420 Nf-From: silver.bacs.indiana.edu!walrath Aug 19 11:00:00 1989 /* Written 3:15 pm Aug 17, 1989 by KHALID%PO8600@dupont.com in silver:comp.sys.amiga */ /* ---------- "Loosing files using WB" ---------- */ >> >>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! > So I am not the only one, I normally dont work with the workbench, but on occasions, I use it to test PD stuff etc. Two weeks ago, I was moving some stuff around and noticed that one of drawers was missing, I thought it wass a mistake and rebooted, well guess what? that drawer was NOT there. I frantically tried looking into Trashcan, tried to use DiskDoctor but nothing... I lost about 10 megabytes of data/image (90% of it was backed up). I have a 65 Meg Hard Disk -C Ltd.- and I have never had any problems prior to that (i.e. saying a lot since I have had it for two years now). I am still puzzled to what happend. (I am using WorkBench even less frequently now...) Soofi /* End of text from silver:comp.sys.amiga */