[Coco] Corrupted OS9 Directorys.

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 August 2020 21:06:43 William Carlin wrote:

> Charlie,
>
> Is one of the files "inside" the directory corrupt and deldir is
> refusing to delete it?  Or are all of the files deleted and the
> directory refuses to delete?
>
> Unfortunately the OS9 file system does not have tools that can
> automatically correct such errors.  Once the filesystem becomes
> corrupted and unstable, usually the only recourse is to mass copy the
> entire file structure to another disk.  If I find that a file or
> folder entry has become corrupt, I make a dsave script of the drive,
> edit it to remove the corrupted files / directories, and then execute
> the script to copy the file structure to a newly formatted disk.
>
> William Carlin
>
If you know what the file structure is supposed to be, there is nothing 
you can't fix with ded.

> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 1:15 PM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
> > What is the best way to remove a corrupted OS-9 directory.
> > deldir will not work.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
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