On Dec 16, 2008, at 3:09 PM, D Stubbs wrote:
> > > >Holy crap...this is going to be a bit more difficult than I thought. > > whoa. yea. What he said. I've never seen that before! > > >You do seem to have two identical '.' directories at the root of the > >drive; no additional characters showed up. > > > >They have to have different inode numbers or they would not (in > >theory) show up twice, but this is getting into "Let me repair myself > >to Google for a while" before I come up with an answer. > > Unless you find something simple, my instinct is to go for the > sledgehammer. That volume cannot be trusted, so back up the user > files, nuke, and repave. Do it NOW before the xtra .sinkhole > swallows the universe. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > ======================================= > > > > Nuke and re-pave , Oh No! > This funny folder has some old iPhoto .jpg's and iTunes mp3's I'd > sure like to salvage, Then I'll let Trash swallow the universe now. > (This is why I am so timid about upgrading to Tiger & my new 160 GB > HD - Ignorance aint always bliss - it took my ignorant hands to > create this tiny dot sized mess! ) > Del Well, COPY the stupid things then. DO IT NOW, as a part of backing everything up. If you really want and need those files, take the time to get them. Don't just dither about and not do anything productive because the won't retrieve easily, you can either get them, or they are gone, and the entries you are slathering about are useless/ meaningless. JMNHO Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
