I cleaned up almost 6Mb of chains on the HDD before I installed 1.64 [or
tried to install it].
As I said earlier, I ended up simply installing the new files I could
see were changed, copying them over [after I'd backed up the old ones]
into my current configuration.
I then read & wrote some mail, visited a couple of web sites [Yahoo
yellow pages, a cartoon-a-week site] and exited Arachne. Just out of
curiosity I did chkdsk/f again ... to see if maybe the lost chains
problem had been reduced.
Much to my shock I discovered that it was even worse than before! 500
plus chains made into files, and in checking the files I find every
message a wrote ended up as a chain, every GIF I visited, etc. It must
have been just about everything that appeared on the screen that ended
up as a loose chain. And these were *full* files, not just bits and
pieces mooshed together like before.
And no, they are NOT from Arachne crashes. I didn't do the mail in 1.64
as "installed" ... didn't do anything in 1.64 except look at a blank
page and watch the DNS ani-GIF spin. Since I "upgraded" rather than did
a new install, there have been no crashes.
I really don't want to have to rewrite my batch file for Arachne to
automatically do the chkdks/f and delete every chk file it finds. :<
l.d.
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