Hi sam and all, On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:00:31 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:22:14 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote: >> Hi folks, >> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:39:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> <snip> >>>> You probably know this already, but just in case you don't, >>>> oddball files can sometimes be deleted by using wildcards >>>> like B*.INS or BEOS*.* . >>> Thanks. I had of course already tried that. It didn't work! >> <snip> >> here is my way to deal with "undeletable" files: >> Run a disk editor of Your choice and overwrite the first letter of the >> name of the file with the character 229 in the directory. You can enter it >> by holding ALT-key and hitting 229 at numeric keypad (DOS will do the >> same when deleting a file). After leaving the editor, chkdsk or similiar >> will report a lost cluster chain. Just delete this and the undeletable >> file is gone to byte heaven. > I had already tried to bring up the file in my disk editor, but I > couldn't do that because I couldn't figure out the real name of the > file. I knew only the apparent name of the file. I suppose I could > have found the file with my disk editor if I had wanted to spend the > time to search my entire hard drive for it. It might have taken me > forever. there is no need to locate the file itself. You just have to find the directory entry. Try Norton Disk Editor, it's very comfy. > I had never before heard about the trick you can do with the character > 229. Thanks for telling us about it. > Sam Heywood > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Regards Joerg -- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
