Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!udel!mmdf
From: KHALID%PO8600@dupont.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Loosing files using WB
Message-ID: <21914@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 17 Aug 89 20:15:24 GMT
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>>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